Failure isn’t fatal
It’s fortunate.
It tells us
we have reached the point
where we can no longer continue without change,
without a new approach,
a new learning.
We have reached the limit of
our current ability.
It gives us a measure
of where we are today, and
how far we’ve come.
It is a limit without limiting,
a boundary without bounding.
To the extent we can see beyond our point of failure,
it shows us what we can be,
what we might be,
if we commit ourselves to
being better,
by doing better,
because we know better is out there
calling to us.
It doesn’t taunt or tease.
It bows our head in defeat
showing us
the line
we stand on
is the starting line.
Posted on November 27, 2014, in Body and tagged Assessment, boundaries, defeat, evaluation, failure, finish line, God, life, motivation, no limits, poetry, Teaching, thankful. Bookmark the permalink. 2 Comments.
The Kinesthetic Christian 
Failure is much better than being frozen in place!
And fear of failure often freezes us. If we could think of pushing to point of ‘failure’ as maxing out and a necessary endpoint for evaluation, perhaps we could stop running from it and start running toward it. (and feel better about letting others experience it for themselves)