You fell. That’s information, not a final sentence.

GRATITUDE

WHAT THIS MEANS

A fall reports something. Where you were weak, who you were with, what hour it tends to happen, what you told yourself right before. That is useful and specific, and it is completely different from a ruling on your future, though the two feel identical in the first hour afterward. Shame wants the event to be the conclusion.

Give yourself a day before deciding what it meant. Then write down the actual sequence rather than the self-assessment, and find the one link you could change. Get back to ordinary life quickly, because staying down is where most of the damage happens.

A QUESTION TO SIT WITH

What did your last failure teach you that success wouldn’t?

MORE IN FAITH, GRACE & PURPOSE

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