The most often repeated and least digested business/life/ministry/sports maxim is: You Learn from Failure.  

• Failure is success if we learn from it.  Malcolm S. Forbes
• Failure is not falling down but refusing to get up.  Chinese Proverb
• I have not failed.  I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work.  ~Thomas Edison
• Try again.  Fail again.  Fail better.  ~Samuel Beckett
• Failure is only the opportunity to begin again more intelligently.  ~Henry Ford
• There is no failure.  Only feedback.  ~Robert Allen
• Failure changes for the better, success for the worse.  ~Lucius Annaeus Seneca
• You always pass failure on your way to success.  ~Mickey Roone 

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Sometimes failure is the result of a particular sin in our lives. Other times, failure has nothing to do with sin. In either case, our failures present another obstacle when it comes to trusting Jesus, especially when we feel we have failed many times. I have certainly failed many times in my life.

As an athlete, I let my team down. As writer, I have had manuscripts rejected by multiple publishers. As a student, I had to drop Latin. I’ve failed to raise financial support as a missionary. As a single man who has never married, I’ve failed in some of my dating relationships.

Have you ever felt like a failure? Maybe it was an unsuccessful career, a botched marriage, or a stupid mistake that ruined a friendship. Feeling like a complete failure can be a lonely experience.

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I’ve wanted to be a director since I was 5. To confirm this statement please go up to my parent’s attic and take out my first grade homework assignment entitled “What I Want to Be When I Grow Up” with a very Steven Speilbergish looking picture of me brilliantly sketched in Crayola washable marker.

Since then I’ve directed projects big and small (mostly small) and have even managed to grow a beard (something the great directors always have).  But the biggest project I’ve endeavored to undertake is my own life. 

I’ve grown to realize, however, that my biggest undertaking is also my biggest failure.

The actors won’t do what I tell them to.

I’m either too early or too late to shoot whatever scene is supposedly going on without me.

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