From The Archives… Failure!
// January 21st, 2010 // My Life
Failure…
this ties in with my previous post on Gods will, people seeking Gods will experience failure and look back wondering “maybe I heard God wrong”
The problem is that they are focusing on the wrong thing. Failure is a bad word for it… but its what we use… so.. so be it
when we ask a baby to learn to walk we expect for that baby to fail over and over… but we insist on picking them up and pushing them to move forward… we coax and cajole and rejoice with each small “almost success” Don’t you think that God looks at us that way?
I am coining a new word… for this blog entry… spiriphorically, it means looking at a spiritual concept metaphorically.. not quite a parable but kinda!.
so lets look at this “baby walking” concept spiriphorically. Read More—>
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