Success and Failure

“Give to God your failures as well as your successes, and pray that they make you a better person.”

It is easy to get caught up in the thinking that all the stuff happening around us is happening to us.  It is important to separate that which is ours and that which isn’t.  That being said, as things happen TO us and FOR us, it is important to understand that these things only get the meaning that we assign to them.  We determine success or failure by our own perception.  Positive?  Negative?  We assign the meaning.  Good?  Bad?  We assign the meaning.  Helpful?  Pain in the ass?  We assign the meaning.  Regardless of the meaning we attach to it, we need to be acknowledging the lessons in all things.  This week we are encouraged to keep our awareness open to the meanings that we assign the things that happen in our lives, and pay attention to the lessons along the way.

#theyarealllessons

Xo Juli