Failure?

Maybe we take our disappointments, failures and mistakes too seriously? This can happen when we decide to hold onto them and do nothing about them, easier to sweep them under the carpet, than face and deal with them? The trouble with this is that they become an essential part of how we are described, known, we become labelled. This can be a gradual process and we don’t even realize it’s happening, but what happens often is that we lock ourselves in, becoming what we think we are and others reinforce this in us. The short cut to this spiral is not to try to not make mistakes, we are all human!

Perfectionism is not the answer to despair

Instead, we need to try to learn to come to terms with our disappointments, failures and mistakes, acknowledging them. God does not require a pure heart before embracing us. Prodigal daughter

We are loved as we are, and we are invited dispite what has happened to us. We can come home even though we may have wandered, we can start again, we do not need to stay trapped in the prison we may have imprisoned ourselves in.

The spiritual life is not about achieving, it is about recognizing that God loves and welcomes us, not to pity us but to inspire and transform us, with new hope and a real acceptance.

An acceptance that will last and carry us through the times we fail.

You might like to pray this prayer?

Father, help me to come to you and know that I am accepted as I am and not for what has happend. I offer anew my life to you, show me the path to walk and put people on that path that will help me and gide me always to you

Amen

Sharon Seal, 20/02/2010

Feedback:

	Bob Kiteley	22/02/2010 15:52
Thank you Sharon for this thought. I echo all you have said in my own experience. God's grace knows no limits! Bless you.
	Pam Driver (Guest)	26/02/2010 09:24
Thank you for this Sharon. In my early years I struggled with trying to come up to my Dad's expectations, he always put me down made me feel as though I was 'thick' when I didn't understand something. Even now after all these years at times when something goes wrong my mind goes back to those early years and I question whether it was my fault or not. I do know that the Heavenly Father loves me as I am and I don't have to prove myself to Him, but it just goes to show that whatever we learn and feel in our early years can sometimes carry on into later life. Your prayer says the words that I need to have in front of me to tell me what I need to take on board. May God continue to bless you.