Have Faith - October Edition

Day 26
There is a time for winning and a time for losing...
Winners were once losers...
It is true that failure and losing are essential
parts of success and winning. I look with awe
at our tennis ace, Andy Murray. It is not so
long ago that we saw his disappointment at
losing in the final of Wimbledon. Disappointment,
frustration, exhaustion, I really felt for
him. It seemed for years he could not quite
get to the heights he wanted, no matter how
he tried it just wasn't happening. Then all of
a sudden, a year later, it all started to fall into
place. Everything paid off and he lifted the
first of two Wimbledon titles. Success was
just beginning. He is now the World's No:1
and he has just about won everything going.
But to get there he had to lose and fail over
and over again, each time making himself a
little more experienced and a little stronger.
The essence of his success was the willingness
to keep trying and that old virtue, patience.
Contrary to popular belief, losing and
failure are nothing more than processes to
success and normally happen when you are
not ready to win or succeed yet. The important
thing here is to keep trying. This has
been such a hard, personal battle for me.
The amount of times I have almost given up
over my own illness is unreal but every time I
think that way, there is a very small part of me
that pushes me on to keep trying and to keep
1 Corinthians 9:24-27
living. I know in my heart that the little bit of
me is starting to get bigger and bigger because
I asked for God's help. I didn't get help
straight away, I had to fail a few times more
before I saw the road I needed to walk down
to win. I haven't won yet but I feel my first title
is just around the corner. Going back to
Psalms, I found this: Psalm 37:23-24 “The
Lord makes firm the steps of the one who delights
in him; though he may stumble, he will
not fall, for the Lord upholds him with his
hand.” Again, a great bible verse that inspires
us to go on. Lyricist and Novelist Paulo
Coelho once wrote “Defeat is for the valiant.
Only they will know the honour of losing and
the joy of winning. I am not here to tell you
that defeat is a part of life: we all know that.
Only the defeated know Love. Because it is
in the realm of love that we fight our first battles
– and generally lose. I am here to tell you
that there are people who have never been
defeated. They are the ones who never
fought. They managed to avoid scars, humiliations,
feelings of helplessness, as well as
those moments when even warriors doubt the
existence of God.’’ No matter how many
times you have failed or lost, you are not a
loser or failure. You just haven't won or succeeded
yet.
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