Failures in Life

I truly believe that the Lord wanted me to take to heart this compiled list of failures as in the last week I have received it several times via email, and I just read it in the book I am reading.  I thought I would share…

Einstein was four years old before he could speak.

Isaac Newton did poorly in grade school and was considered “unpromising”.

When Thomas Edison was a youngster, his teacher told me he was too stupid to learn anything. He was counseled to go into a field where he might succeed by virtue of his pleasant personality.

F.W. Woolworth got a job in a dry goods store when he was twenty-one, but his boss would not permit him to wait on customers because he “didn’t have enough sense to close a sale.”

Michael Jordon was cut from his high school basketball team.

A newspaper editor fired Walt Disney because he “lack imagination and had no original ideas.”

Winston Churchill failed the sixth grade and had to repeat it because he did not complete the tests that were required for promotion.

Babe Ruth struck out 1,330 times, a major league record.

~author of compilation unknown

Often we learn so much more from our failures in life than we do our successes.  In our failures, we learn to depend completely on God.  I know that I need to praise the Lord more for my failures.  So today, I am thankful for my failures.  May I be open to the Lord’s teaching and leading during these times.