I have been working on
this post of a while now, I guess I thought I was strong and the failures I am
about to speak about was conquered, but I was wrong. I went to see the movie
Everest (highly recommend it to anyone). It is a movie about pushing yourself
to achieve something that you might succeed in or not. The outcome is unknown
but the people still pushed forward to reach the top of Everest. There was one
quote in the movie that got me thinking, Dough Hansen said: "A Few more
days, the rest of your life you will be the guy who got to top of
Everest". This really hit me because it made me reflect on the last few
weeks of my life and how big my problems may seem to me, but over a few days it
can be a problem that has been conquered and left in the past.
See we all fail
at some point in our life, we often question what we did wrong or why it
happened, and not often enough on how we can take this failure and make it into
success. We learn and grow through our triumphs and failures because that is how
we build our character. I was talking to my mother and described it as if I was
walking into the ocean and sinking, every time I had my head above the water,
the next wave would hit me, bigger than the one before. I literally thought my
world was crashing down and that I will sink into the depths of the ocean to be
forgotten. The last few months was some of the hardest months of my life with
bad news hitting me like a steady incline and made it very difficult to see the
top of my Everest, but it has truly shaped me and I am still working through it
all, but to anyone reading this, perspective is everything.
I recently visited
my favourite place in Australia, Bryon Bay, and met so many amazing people. The
trip in itself deserves a blog post. This trip is exactly what I needed and
really gave me a new outlook on to the things going on in my life, I spend more
time in conversation with God and with the people who follow him, and found
peace. One conversation specifically is the reason my perspective has been changed,
like I said, that's for another blog post. It was someone who spoke in to my
life and comforted me in the fact that I was not alone. God loves me
unconditionally, and any failure is so small compared to the amazing love he
has for me. Things change, people move on, but God is forever.
I leave you with
this bible verse:
Romans 5:3-5 Not only so, but we also glory in our
sufferings, because we know that suffering produces perseverance, perseverance
character, and character hope. And Hope does not put us to shame, because God's
love has been poured out into our hearts through the Holy Spirit, who has been
given to us.
Until next time [C]
