A Lesson About the Bottom

When it comes to the bottom there are so many different there are so many different thoughts on it. Here is a key thought about the bottom. There are many false bottoms, those are the times when we think that they can't get any worse. It's the real bottom that you have to hit. It's when you can't take anymore, and you're teetering on the edge. That is the real bottom. Here is my philosephy on the bottom....

"The fall can be soul breaking, but the climb back up is well worth it."

The Journey of Failure....

Let's talk about something that can eat away at the core of your being worst than anything else....it's a little thing called failure. Most wise people will tell you that failure is a good thing because it helps you to grow and to learn, some really stupid people will tell you that it's unacceptable. I'm hear to tell you a few honest thoughts about failure, and you can draw your own conclusions.

To clarify failure. I mean constant struggle to succeed at something, and to constantly let yourself (and most of the time others) down. Whether you've been beaten out by someone else, or your simply not meeting expectations. It's a very simple definition for such a complicated word.

Failure is something that I know all to well about, because it's been the story of my life. Everything I've ever wanted in my life has been a fight. There's always been a struggle for something, and nothing has ever come easy. Honestly I can't keep track of the number of prayers that I have asked God to cut me a break. I doubt he ever will. That's one of the biggest lessons I've learned of failure. Don't ever expect a break in any journey that you're on. No matter how hard you fight and refuse to give up you still won't be good enough, or at least that's how it can feel. Discouragement is a big part of failure.

It's another lesson that comes with the trial. It's hard to sacrifice and give your all, and still fall short of your goals every time. It's easy to start questioning the fruit of hard work when you know that your giving everything, but then we must start thinking of who's to say your failing....

Man is constantly seeing things from their perspective alone, and I think we need to start looking through God's eyes. He makes things hard to get, so that we can appreciate what we have and what it took to get it. There are so many more reasons why we are constantly fighting. It is human nature to fall, but it's also human nature to keep going. It's when we reach our limit that we must question what it is we will turn to, or if we'll even get back up at all.

Take some advice from a constant failure..... keep running the race. Journey's with real prizes at the end will have a few roses along the way, and they'll also have a thousand more thorns lining the path. The only protection you have from those thorns is faith and love. It might not always feel like it's protecting you, but I assure you it could hurt a lot worse.

Those thorns will get bigger and sharper, but your feet will get stronger. Your skin will get tougher and you'll get use to the pain.....eventually you'll get use to it, and you'll accept that it's just the way it has to be for now (even when for now seems like forever.)

So I encourage you to take your falters with stride as you continue to run this race. Take those scars that the thorns might leave and run as fast as you can......even when you're going your slowest.....just keep running.....just keep running....