Victory & Failure

Isn't life full of victories and also accompanied by what we think is failure?? I used to struggle with failure BIG time. It was mostly in little areas... like I just wouldn't enter into something if I knew I would have the opportunity to possibly fail.

Example: Trying out for the musical in high-school. I had fear because I most likely wouldn't get any part and would stumble over my words, etc so therefore it just wasn't worth it.


However, there have been more times than not where I have pushed through that FEAR of failure and reached a level of VICTORY that wouldn't have been possible without just moving forward.


Example: Deciding to Photograph weddings. I was deathly afraid of entering this arena because of the responsibility and intense-ness. Yet there came victory... and it is my favorite thing now!


I got to thinking about this last night when our ohh-so-sad-Vikings didn't seem to have much victory in the BIG game vs. the Packers. I thought, I wonder how they view this? Do they see it is a major failure or as a LESSON....

 

[I also got excited because I got Jude and I matching shirts for NEXT year!!]

In life when there is failure (or what we think might be failure) it is often so clearly accompanied with VICTORY! I feel like I experience that a lot in life... it's just taking the mistakes/messup's/situations and CHOOSING to turn them into a learning process which will ALWAYS result in Victory.

Victory:

noun /ˈvikt(ə)rē/ 

a successful ending of a struggle or contest; "a narrow victory"

 

[ Josh did a lot of this last night... ]

Deuteronomy 20:4

For the LORD your God is the one who goes with you to fight for you against your enemies to give you victory."