Epic
failure! That is what the bloggers say when something doesn’t turn out right.
My wife and her friend are decorating for a Christmas party, but the silver
pinecone-cranberry-candle-water feature didn’t work. So it was truly epic
failure; or was it? Undaunted, they began a counterattack with a brilliant plan
B, using the same materials but in a different way.
Someone told
me that the late Zig Zigler used to say “In order to succeed you must fail
many, many times.” Yet, we are afraid to fail. Was Peter a failure because he
got out of the boat, or was he a failure because he began to sink? I think he
was simply showing leadership by taking a risk. So many years later, preachers
don’t sermonize on the ones back in the boat; they preach on the one who stepped
out!
Somebody has
to do something. Somebody has to try.
Somebody might fail in the process, but that somebody might be you and your
success is just that much closer. You are not an epic failure.
