Spirituality and Failure

[BarbaraTherese]

I am unsure where this comes from, but thought it worth posting:

And if we do “fall short”?

That very awareness of “falling short” implies two related realities:

• We are trying
• We need to try again.

**There is no failure here, ****for ****spirituality **involves a continual falling down and getting back up again.
That is why humility
the knowledge of our own imperfections is so important
and that is why spirituality goes on and on and on,
a never-ending adventure of coming to know ourselves
seeing ourselves clearly
learning to be at home and at peace with God, ourselves
and others

**SAINTS ARE SINNERS ****WHO DON’T **GIVE UP

 

[blessedstar]

Yes that is why the man (tax collector) in the temple who beat his breast and asked God to have mercy on him a sinner was closer to God than the man (pharisee) who attempted to thank God for what he saw as the lack of his sins.

No-one need ever congratulate themselves on anything, as St Paul said, his boast was only Christ Jesus as such all praise is given to Him for all good in all people.

When we fall we can be sure there is a lesson in it for us, showing a part of ourselves we previously did not know or an understanding of another and if we learn the lesson the fall has served it purpose because in Christ we have gotten up again and out of everything comes good by God’s grace.

In Christ there is no failure, there is only redemption in His glory, that is the arduous journey in faith, the falling and rising, the eternal hope of mankind.

 

[BarbaraTherese]

blessedstar:

Yes that is why the man (tax collector) in the temple who beat his breast and asked God to have mercy on him a sinner was closer to God than the man (pharisee) who attempted to thank God for what he saw as the lack of his sins.

No-one need ever congratulate themselves on anything, as St Paul said, his boast was only Christ Jesus as such all praise is given to Him for all good in all people.

When we fall we can be sure there is a lesson in it for us, showing a part of ourselves we previously did not know or an understanding of another and if we learn the lesson the fall has served it purpose because in Christ we have gotten up again and out of everything comes good by God’s grace.

In Christ there is no failure, there is only redemption in His glory, that is the arduous journey in faith, the falling and rising, the eternal hope of mankind.

Hi again Blessed Star, I have just finished posting in response to another post you contributed in a different thread. I think we are probably very much on the same wavelength…and as oft can happen saying the same thing in different ways.

If we are in Grace, then God’s Will embraces us in all things, we have only to surrender to that loving embrace. And in failure and our human weakness that loving embrace is of Mercy if one just surrenders to it and very often it can be that pride can struggle against that Mercy, thinking it should perform better, rather than sighting the truth, the reality, that one often fails and will continue to do so…nevertheless we keep on trying, running ‘the good race’ as St Paul calls it and to the end, continually asking of The Lord that exquisite Grace of final perseverence to the end. And if there is any success than praise and thankfulness is due to God alone and His Grace. It is a beautiful statement of St. Vincent de Paul “there but for God’s Grace go I”.

I thought your Post above was very beautiful and delicate as well as insightful and spot on. Thank you again.

Barb

SAINTS ARE SINNERS WHO KEEP ON TRYING

PS I thought you signature beautiful too…and very true.