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Regarding Failure: August 23 2009
Date Posted: 2009-08-18One of the biggest things that changes when you have children is that you instantly become a monumental failure. It's a set-up. Here you are, convinced that you are a rational person-- generally amicable, able to get through each and every day with ease. Sure, you blow up once in a while, or, occasionally, make a bone-headed move. But these are the exceptions.
Then you have children, and they just have this unbelievable ability to find your sore spot. And once they have it, they poke at it until it bleeds. You find yourself feeling confused, angry, even exasperated on a near-daily schedule.
And then, when it gets to you, and you snap, you feel the most unbelievable guilt-- because, of course, all you want is for your children to feel loved and accepted. And you're the one who's ruining it.
Of course, whether we have children or not, we all fail-- and do so with some regularity. Or at least most of us do. If you don't, can you just pretend you do? It will make the rest of us feel better.
The question isn't do you fail? The question is, once you fail, how are you going to respond? What do we do now that we've done it?
That's what we're talking about during this Sunday's service: how to fail. Please deposit your comments here, and we hope to see you Sunday.
Comments
Is that apple reference on purpose? If so, that's pretty deep. Apple = failure to be divine. Apple = being human, which involves some failure.
Posted By: Sarah on 2009-09-10 11:28:17
Hahaha...close on the heels of my Sunday talk...a sermon on "Failure." Love it! I won't take it personally. ;-)
Posted By: Ayers on 2009-08-18 10:03:51
