SURVIVING FAILURE!
"This thing we call failure is not the falling down, but the staying down."
Mary Pickford
A young mom tonight shared she fell off the wagon last night...Couldn't handle the pressures and resentments and the loss of her husband's job-so she scoured the pantry and found something to make herself feel better. A few hours later, the high wore off and the uncomfortable feelings returned...along with an additional feeling of failure.
But from where I sat, she looked like a winner. She could have stayed DOWN...drowned her sorrows even further, instead-she picked herself up and pushed through the day one step at a time, until tonight when she admitted her flaws and her failure. She found the strength to make the one choice that would make all the difference in her tomorrows. Sometimes we have to stumble-just to see how far we've come.
And as Maya Angelou so eloquently put it, "We can dream, fail and still survive."
So face your failures, fast forward...and never give up!
Mary Pickford
A young mom tonight shared she fell off the wagon last night...Couldn't handle the pressures and resentments and the loss of her husband's job-so she scoured the pantry and found something to make herself feel better. A few hours later, the high wore off and the uncomfortable feelings returned...along with an additional feeling of failure.
But from where I sat, she looked like a winner. She could have stayed DOWN...drowned her sorrows even further, instead-she picked herself up and pushed through the day one step at a time, until tonight when she admitted her flaws and her failure. She found the strength to make the one choice that would make all the difference in her tomorrows. Sometimes we have to stumble-just to see how far we've come.
And as Maya Angelou so eloquently put it, "We can dream, fail and still survive."
So face your failures, fast forward...and never give up!
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