You Are Not Defined By Failure

If You Have Faced Failure, This Is A MUST READ.

Do you have a $2/$5 note on you?

Take it out. I'm gonna ask you to do something with it. Follow my instructions:

1. If you are inside the house, go outside now.

2. Look for a puddle of water with lots of mud. Go over to it.

3. Throw that $2/$5 note down into that puddle of water. Step on it so that it will get soaked.

4. After that, you kick it over to the mud. Step on it and kick it around in the mud till its really dirty, then kick heaps of mud onto it till its buried.

5. Now leave it and go back home.

...just joking...

6. Dig it up with both hands, go wash that note, dry it, and get back into the house.

The Dictionary tells us that "Failure" is a 'State or condition of not meeting a desirable or intended objective, opposite of success'. Now that seems like a very bad state to be in. Nobody wants to not reach their objectives, nobody wants to not succeed. That, is a very, very dangerous path.

BUT!

What the dictionary does not tell us is this:

In order to succeed, we must first fail.

In order for us to know what it feels like to be on top of the world, we have to first know what it feels like to be at the bottom, in order for us to have made it this far in our educational life, we have had to have gotten a good, great number of test & assignment papers with very unpleasant grades, the very fact that you and I are here now, afraid, scared shitless of what the results would be, is a direct evidence that it was not easy getting here. HOW? Its simple. If we know we messed up a lot, that our internal marks were not really good, then we know that we might fail. We are afraid because of our past failures. But if we do not fail, which I believe we wont, then we succeed. And that just proves that to be successful, you first have to fail.

Therefore, failure is not, and I repeat, NOT, a bad thing or state to be in.

It is YOUR REACTION and MY REACTION towards it that is the Problem.

Take Thomas Edison for example. He failed countless times before finally creating the first successful light bulb. They say more than 1000 times, but I believe he failed even more than that. And what hits me is his response when asked if he had failed a lot of times. He said: 'I have not failed 1000 times, I have only found 1000 ways that won’t work.'

That right there was HIS REACTION towards failure. He took it head on. He was positive all the way. He Never Gave Up on His Dream/Ambition/Goal/etc...

FAILURE DID NOT DEFINE HIM,

BECAUSE HE DID NOT LET IT DO SO. He knew who he was and what he was capable of. He Kept Trying.

You & I are like that $2/$5 that we used at the start. And God is the Owner of that $2/$5 note. When we fail in life, we find ourselves been pushed under a puddle of dirty water. We find ourselves been tossed and turned around in the mud of hopelessness, until we are finally buried. Until we are at our lowest. Until we are fully drained of strength-mentally.

That Is When God Comes In To PULL! US! OUT!

TO WASH! US! CLEAN!

TO DRY US! AND TO TAKE! US! BACK!

BUT!!!!!

God is waiting for OUR REACTION. We have to choose Him. We have to stay Positive. We have to NOT GIVE UP!

WE HAVE TO KEEP TRYING!!!

Because No Matter How Many Times We Fail, Just Like That $2/$5 Note, OUR VALUE REMAINS! WHAT WE ARE CAPABLE OF IS STILL INSIDE US. OUR POTENTIAL TO SUCCEED IS STILL IN US!

FAILURE DOES NOT DEFINE US.

WE ARE WHO WE ARE.

GODS CREATION. HIS MASTERPIECE.

AND WE ARE ALL DESTINED FOR GREATNESS.

The Question Is:

When You & I Fail,

What Would Our Reaction Be???

Thank You for reading.

What Is Your Worth?

What is your worth?

How valuable do you think you are?

I know you have your own answer but please allow me to give you mine. Here it goes:
Today, in the world that we live in, people value a lot of things because of what this things are worth. Some value money, luxury, a prominent job and many more while others value nature, especially plants and animals. Heck, there are people out there who love dogs more than they love other fellow humans! But no matter how valuable all the above are, none can ever add up to Your Value.
You see, money, luxury, and all of those are man-made and have calculated values. Nature, on the other hand, is God's Creation and does not have any calculated value other than those that have been set by humans.

Now you might say: I am also God's Creation. How different does that make me from Nature?
Well, for everything else in the Garden, God spoke and it came into form; it came into being. The sound of His mighty voice resulted in the existence of these things. For you, a human? Nope, not so.
He had to leave His Throne and come down to this Earth, He had to go onto both knees, and he had to mold the dirty clay with His bare Hands. Every centimeter, every inch of your body was molded and shaped by His Powerful Hands and He even went to the extent of breathing the breathe of life into your nostrils so that you may have life. Oh yes, He could have just spoken and you would have come into existence but no, God, the Creator of the entire Universe, had to leave his Throne in Glory; had to come down to Earth; Had to kneel down on the ground; had to touch the dirt of this Earth; had to get His Holy Hands and Fingers dirty! JUST FOR YOU! JUST SO THAT YOU COULD BE A PART OF ALL CREATION!

IF HE WOULD DO THAT FOR JUST YOU, YOU TELL ME NOW, HOW MORE VALUABLE ARE YOU?????????

No calculated value on this Earth set by men can ever add up to Your Real Value. You Are The Icing On The Cake, The MASTERPIECE Of God's Creation. No amount of Diamonds, Gold, or any precious stones can outworth your worth. No living thing found in nature can outvalue your value. Money, luxury - the things that are valued by people today - can and will never ever be comparable to you in this life or in the life to come. There is no word in the dictionary that could ever fully describe your worth. YOU ARE EVEN WORTH DYING FOR! Because God sent His Only Son to give up His Life for You. Yes, YOU!

On a piano, you have 88 spirituals. The 'keys' of the keyboard may be referred to as spirituals. You have the seven white spirituals which are named after letters A - G, and you have five black spirituals which are found between the white spirituals. All add up to twelve spirituals. Now if you calculate the probability of how many chord progressions there are, you will find a set limit, but that does not mean that there is a limit to the amount of music that can and will ever be made. We, humans, are like that Piano. The Characters and Personalities we possess are like the keys on the piano. Probability tells us that there can be a limit to how many types of people there are and psychology tells us that there are four types of people but that does not mean there there is a limit to how many lives there are that roam the face of this Earth. You Can Look This World Over Ten Times, Twenty Times, Even A Hundred Times But You Will NEVER Find Someone Who Is Exactly Like You.

What does this tell you about yourself???

You Are Special.
You Are Unique.
You Are Rare.
Thus, Your Value is immeasurable.
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So, again I ask, what is your worth?

How valuable do you think you are?

Stronger On Your Own (about relos)

We tend to rush from one relationship to another, thinking that the next person is gonna love us and treat us better than the last, thinking that we can not take the of the pain of losing someone. We are so caught up in this way of thinking because rather than using our brains to think, we are using our feelings and emotions and fears. We depend on other people for our happiness. We think that only with them, we can be whole; that we can be complete. 

But that’s a lie! 

You and I are stronger on our own. We do not need other people to make us whole, we do not need other people to make us feel complete because our God created us with EVERYTHING WE NEED! A MASTERPIECE. Jumping from one relationship to another only shows that you do not value yourself enough to wait. Value-unstable people tend to do that. It only shows how insecure and vulnerable you are. And that is not, I repeat, NOT, who you really are, or rather, who you should be. You are just blinded by love. Your heart has the potential to heal itself. You can survive any heartbreak.

Don’t rush. 

Take it low and slow. 

If you value yourself enough, you would wait...because 'Love is Patient', and your heart is valuable and must be treated with respect, love and extra care.