Spiritual Thoughts

  Friday Tale - Light Bulb Failure Edison  failed 10,000 times before perfecting the incandescent electric light bulb.   One of America’s greatest inventors, Thomas Edison had an extraordinarily positive perception of life that greatly enhanced his ability as an inventor. When others might have been hopelessly discouraged after failing thousands of times in an attempt to develop an electric light, the great Edison simply viewed each unsuccessful experiment as the elimination of a solution that wouldn’t work, thereby moving him that much closer to a successful solution.   We could all take a lesson from Edison. Stories abound about inventors who quit trying and gave up too soon or miners who struck gold just a few feet beyond where someone else quit digging. There are few obstacles in life that will not succumb to consistent, sustained, intelligent, positive action.   When you are discouraged after you’ve failed at something, remember Edison’s 10,000 failures bef...

Failure is a detour, not a dead-end street. ~ Zig Ziglar Keep the charge of the LORD your God, to walk in His ways, to keep His ….. commandments, …. So that you may succeed in all that you do and wherever you turn. ~ 1 Kings 2:3

  T here's always failure. And there is always disappointment.  And there's always loss. BUT the secret is learning from the loss, and realizing that none of these holes are vacuums. ~ Michael J. Fox   G ive instruction to a wise man and he will be still wiser; Teach a righteous man and he will increase his learning; The fear of the LORD is the beginning of wisdom, And the knowledge of the Holy One is understanding. ~ Proverbs 9:9

 Friday Tale ~ Learning from Failure           During an interview with a newspaper reporter a famous research scientist who had made a number of very important medical breakthroughs was asked why he was able to make the medical break throughs and what set him apart from others in his field?           He responded that, in his opinion, it all came from an experience with his mother that occurred when he was about four years old. He had been trying to remove a bottle of milk from the refrigerator when he lost his grip on the cold and somewhat slippery bottle and it fell and broke spilling its contents all over the kitchen floor creating a veritable sea of milk!           When his mother came into the kitchen, instead of yelling at him and giving him a lecture what he had done wrong or punishing him, she said, ‘My son, what a great and wonderful...

    Friday Tale - Great Pitcher or Bad Hitter? When Ron gave his seven-year-old son Nick a ball and bat, Nick wanted to play immediately. Ron said, "Son, baseball's a serious game. You have to practice hard before you can play it." The boy went outside and began throwing the ball in the air and swinging at it over and over.           After an hour he said, "Dad, can we play now?"           Ron said, "Show me what you can do."           Nick threw the ball in the air, took a mighty swing and missed.           "Strike one," he said enthusiastically. He tossed the ball again and missed again. "Strike two,...

  Friday Tale - May You Have....   M ay your joys be as bright as the morning, And your sorrows merely be shadows  that fade in the sunlight of love. May you have enough happiness to  keep you sweet. Enough trials to keep you strong. Enough sorrow to keep you human. Enough hope to keep you happy. Enough failure to keep you humble. Enough success to keep you eager. Enough friends to give you comfort. Enough faith and courage in yourself to banish sadness. Enough wealth to meet your needs. And one thing more: Enough determination to make each day a more wonderful day than the one before. ~ an Irish Blessing   W e count them blessed who endure. You have heard of the endurance of Job and have seen the outcome of the Lord's dealings, that the Lord is full of compassion and merciful. ~ James 5:11 

  F ailure is enriching. It is important  to accept that you will make mistakes - it's how you build your expertise. The trick is to learn a positive lesson from all of life's negative moments. ~ Alain Ducasse   L et us discern what is right; let us learn together what is good. ~ Job 34:4

  S uccess is not final; Failure is not fatal; it is the courage to continue that counts. ~ Winston Churchill   B ut you, be strong and do not lose courage, for there is reward for your work. ~ 2 Chronicles 15:7

Y ou build on failure. You use it as a stepping stone. Close the door on the past. You don't try to forget the mistakes, BUT you don't dwell on it. You don't let it have any of your energy, or your time, or any of your space. ~ Johnny Cash T herefore, encourage one another and build up one another, just as you are also doing. ~ 1 Thessalonians 5:11 

F ailure does not count. If you accept this, you'll be successful. What causes most people to fail is that after one failure, they'll stop trying. ~ Frank Burford S o keep your mind on Jesus, who put up with many insults from sinners. Then you won't get discouraged and give up. ~ Hebrews 12:3 (CEV)

F ailures are like skinned knees, painful BUT superficial . ~ H. Ross Perot    A nd let us not grow weary in doing good, for in due season we will reap, if we do not give up. ~ Galatians 6:9

Y ou build on failure. You use it as a stepping stone. Close the door on the past. You don't try to forget the mistakes, BUT you don't dwell on it. You don't let it have any of your energy, or any of your time, or any of your space. ~ Johnny Cash  I can do all things through Him  who strengthens me.  ~ Philippians 4:13

A ll that is necessary to break the spell of inertia and frustration is this: Act as if it were impossible to fail. That is the talisman, the formula, the command, of right-about-face which turns us from failure towards success. ~ Dorothea Brande  F or nothing will be impossible with God.  ~ Luke 1:37