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In the drawer of our lives God created partitions for all that makes us whole.

For our body, our mind, our senses.
He gave us the tools to control and manage them as we wish.
For good or destruction.
But most fragile of all, our emotions, the tools for which we search, so often in vain.

Longing is the most punishing pawn God has placed in our drawer of emotions. 

It surfaces when it is not wanted and cannot be found when it is needed.

There is a curse bestowed on those of us who have been raised to feel we have failed.

The fear of failure makes us run after that which we have failed in and endeavor to improve it.

Rather than turn to that which is our strength, we hold on with a death grip, nursing our failures, endeavoring to transform them into a masked success.

Instead let go.

Enjoy the success of that we feel we can accomplish.

It is the constant search for approval and the need to demonstrate that we have not failed which  magnetizes us to our failures, repeatedly trying to repair them. 

Failure is the human frailty which exists in even the most capable.

Therefore to bide with failure is fruitless.

Enjoy the mountains we can climb rather than dwelling on those we can’t.

In doing so, we prove not only to others, but more importantly, to ourselves, that we are not failures.   We are human.

All humans have weaknesses.

All humans have abilities.

The gift is recognizing them.

The power to accept what we cannot do and know what we can, gives us a sense of accomplishment and the sense of self worth to know we are not failures and can be an example to others.

Use our failures to humble us but wear our accomplishments with pride to make us strong.

For with our successes we can be of use to others and proud within ourselves.

Do not accept what others see as your failures, alternatively channel them into your strengths.

Realize the consequence of your failures on others and above all, yourself.