Disappointment

This is not a fun word to be. No one wants to be a disappointment. I recently had the joy of disappointing someone. Not fun. Tears were shed. One of my biggest fears is to be a disappointment to people. I hate letting people down, and I usually strive to go the extra mile. Sometimes though, I fail spectacularly at this. Sometimes I get so tired and lazy that the second mile just doesn't seem worth it and the first one doesn't really matter all that much anyway... This is a bad place to be. So I let someone down because I just didn't care at that point. Of course, now I care a lot and wish I could go back and kick myself and say, "CARE!" but I cannot. So now's my time to learn from what I just did. I did a little poking around on google and I found this. They Did Not Give Up. Check it out. It's a bunch of stories of famous people who had to go through a lot of disappointments and seeming failures before they got to where they were going. So I'll let you learn from them. But never fear failure, because if you do it right, it only gets you closer to the prize. As Confucius said, "Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall."

1 John 4:18 There is no fear in love. But perfect love drives out fear, because fear has to do with punishment. The one who fears is not made perfect in love.