Forget Your Failures
March 2, 2015 by zgardener
Like Babe Ruth, Ty Cobb was one of the greatest baseball players who’s ever played the game. Ty Cobb was known for stealing bases. He truly was a base-stealer. But you know, he was thrown out more than any other man in baseball trying to steal bases.
Babe Ruth, the greatest baseball home-run hitter of all time, struck out more than any other man in baseball. He held the record, not only for home runs, but for strike outs!
These men didn’t let their failures stop them. They kept striving to achieve their goal.
Fix your goal! Face your faults. Forget your failures. Failure in the spiritual and the physical life is not final. Your problem may be that you may have only a certain assessment of yourself. Yes, you’ll face your faults, but you may still refuse to forget your failures.
Today is the day. Forget your failures!
Michael & Alison Smitherman
I will sing to my Lord as long as I live, I will sing
praise to my God while I have my being.
Their is a blessing hidden in every problem. God uses the problems (most of which we create) to accomplish in our lives that without which, we would never become the creatures he created us to be.
That’s right, God turns bad to good, black to white, loss to gain and failure to success. He turned the cross from the symbol of being vanquished to being victorious. When we let our problems or mistakes bog us down in guilt, shame, remorse or self-recrimination, we block these blessings from accomplishing their miracles.
So today, let us fix our face on the “the goal to win the prize for which God has called me”. And let us remember our failures only by the blessings that arose form them. Today is the day, the Lord has made. Let us rejoice and be glad in it.
Goal fixing,
Z gardener
Author’s note: A new gardener joins us today. He has dedicated his life to public health and now works each take to ensure that “the least of these” have access to life-giving medical care. Welcome to the garden, brother. Z.
Good Morning Garden 
This comment from one of the original gardeners. Peace. Z
Good meditation and epilogue: Life is hard enough sometimes, without “beating ourselves up” in the process of trying to move forward. (This type of thinking inhibits progress through self-imposed concentration on defeat). We gotta keep our eye on the ball and the upcoming home run without any consideration of failure. Wayne Gretzky said “I miss 100% of the shots that I don’t take”. We have all seen, first hand, folks prevent themselves from succeeding by talking themselves out of trying, based on the possibility (or seeming probability) of “I can’t do this”. Mental barriers can be tough to cross, even impossible, if we entertain the notions and consequences of doubt, fear, past failure or perceived inadequacies and let them convince us of a doomed attempt. “Whatever you have done before has nothing to do with what you can become now.”
This is all very easy to write from my computer “safe-spot” because I’m not currently wrestling an alligator who is determined to defeat me. – “Life begins at the edge of the comfort zone”.
Of course, you are the Positive Thinking Guru, and already know all of this. I’m only talking to myself, and listening to “hear”, so as to continually implement this stuff. I know the right words to say, but “feeling” a good outcome comes from expectation of SUCCESS. “When you’re hot, you’re hot; when you’re not, you’re not.” – Pre-conceived perception of “prefect” experience through perseverance of attitude and faith of attainment.
Sorry, just rambling… wandering around the thought processes to see what surfaces.