Part of what made Michael Jordan so great was his willingness to take risk. Jordan once said: I've missed more than 9,000 shots in my career. I've lost almost 300 games. 26 times, I have been trusted to take the game winning shot and missed. I have failed over and over and over again in my life. And that is why I succeed.
Babe Ruth struck out almost twice the number of times that he hit a home run, yet he still is considered one of the greatest home run hitters ever. Abraham Lincoln lost every political race he entered, until he won the presidency the first time.
We all fall short. We all fall down. We all fail. That is one piece of life that we seem to forget to explain to young people. They are often confronted with failure in ways that they never expect.
When things happen to us that aren't exactly what we had hoped for, there are a number of ways we can respond. But there's only one response that will help us to move on toward the promise of a new day full of opportunities.
GET OVER IT, GET UP, AND TRY AGAIN!
Eric Liddell, an Olympic great and missionary to China, once said, "In the dust of defeat as well as the laurels of victory there is glory to be found if one has done his best."
I said it before and I will say it again, GET OVER IT, GET UP, AND TRY AGAIN!
"Let us run with endurance the race God has set before us. We do this by keeping our eyes on Jesus, the champion who initiates and perfects our faith...Think of all the hostility he endured from sinful people; then you won't become weary and give up." Hebrews 12:1-3
Babe Ruth struck out almost twice the number of times that he hit a home run, yet he still is considered one of the greatest home run hitters ever. Abraham Lincoln lost every political race he entered, until he won the presidency the first time.
We all fall short. We all fall down. We all fail. That is one piece of life that we seem to forget to explain to young people. They are often confronted with failure in ways that they never expect.
When things happen to us that aren't exactly what we had hoped for, there are a number of ways we can respond. But there's only one response that will help us to move on toward the promise of a new day full of opportunities.
GET OVER IT, GET UP, AND TRY AGAIN!
Eric Liddell, an Olympic great and missionary to China, once said, "In the dust of defeat as well as the laurels of victory there is glory to be found if one has done his best."
I said it before and I will say it again, GET OVER IT, GET UP, AND TRY AGAIN!
"Let us run with endurance the race God has set before us. We do this by keeping our eyes on Jesus, the champion who initiates and perfects our faith...Think of all the hostility he endured from sinful people; then you won't become weary and give up." Hebrews 12:1-3
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