128 - When we 'fail'

Strange reason to be thankful? Allow me to elaborate...

I read this book recently called Packing Light by Alison Vesterfelt. It was a very good book and I wrote lots of quotes down from it. But one in particular stood out to me.

'If we think the objective is to get a certain job, or a certain car, or a certain spouse, then of course we'll feel like a failure when that doesn't happen. Of course we'll wonder if we heard God wrong, or if we made a wrong turn somewhere. But what if the point isn't the end product? Or what if the end product isn't what we thought it was? What if the point is the trip and the end product is us?' 

This kind of thinking could change our outlook on life.

We need no longer fear failing at something - in fact we can be thankful when we do.

Because through them, we can learn and grow.

Because those failures go toward making us the person God wants us to be. Like His son.