I have stumbled my way through most of my life. However. God has kept me from falling all of my life.

We will know that our rebellion against God has reached a peak when we spend our lives attempting to force failed alternatives to work despite their failures. And if we persist, this ‘peak’ of rebellion will become the valley our of demise.

With God, the setbacks of today are the precise ingredients that He needs to craft the victories of tomorrow.

Without hesitation, I can tell you that it wasn’t the ability to get it right that got me here. Rather, it was the ability to learn every time that I got it wrong.

Never having made a mistake is a success that is always inferior to having made a mistake and having learned from it.

The need for a solution suggests the existence of a problem. The existence of a problem suggests the presence of a mistake. And a mistake suggests the existence of a less than wise choice that was probably mine.

To abandon the past is to throw away all of the elements that will build my future. And that creates a landfill I can’t afford to fill.

Starting over is opportunity informed by failure, which is opportunity made intelligent.

If I look closely, my failures are less about my inadequacies and more about the fact that I channel my abilities into the wrong places.