Dealing with it

I know, I know...maybe you're starting to feel depressed because of my recent post about overcoming, difficulties, and trails but indulge me once more. To connect with other people on a heart-to-heart level you have to write about what is touching you and that's what I've tried to do although I am not sure that I always succeed. Right now there are many things in my life that are things I don't want to think about but I have too.

I have to deal with it.

With failure.

With questions.

With loss.

And the feeling that so many things are slipping through my fingers.

I have begun reading an autobiography of Winston Churchill, a man who never backed down. I couldn't tell you why I began reading about Mr. Churchill but I am thinking that it had something to do with what God thought I should read. I had just finished putting my violin in my case after a violin lesson in which I basically failed at everything when I read a quote of Mr. Churchill's-one of Britain's greatest champions.

"Never give in, never give in, never; never; never; never - in nothing, great or small, large or petty - never give in except to convictions of honor and good sense."
-Winston Churchill

I had to face it all again and I had to deal with it-it is failure. Failure can be small or large and can harm us or make us better but we must never give into it. Never back down. Never lose faith. Never give in.

...In all these things we are more than conquerors through him who loved us.
Romans 8:37