Imagine a potter, a person who creates pots out of clay. Most of us have seen him at work, sitting near a potter’s wheel diligently working away, with keen interest to create in his gleaming eyes and wet clay in his hands.
He takes wet clay in his hands; first he kneads it, and then beats it and finally gives it the shape of his desire.
But in case you have watched the potter keenly you will notice the following:
He places the wet clay on the potter’s wheel, swings the wheel around and begins to give shape to the clay. As soon as the clay starts taking shape, the potter begins to gently beat the clay from the outside the entire time holding and providing strong support from the inside.
Now take this example and place it plum in the middle of your everyday life.
How many times do you feel that life is too tough for you?
How many times do you feel that all your efforts are blown away?
How many times do you feel that life is unfair?
How many time do you repeatedly try, sometimes using one method sometimes another, you try everything in your power but still come up short?
There may be numerous such trying and testing occasions taht constanty pop up in to your life where each and every of your effort hits a brick wall and disintegrates into thin air.
My final question is; how many times do you analyze the causes of these failures without bias and on how many occasions do you try to figure out the valuable learning one of these short term failures may have provided you?
The creator of our lives in many ways is very much like the potter. He too gives us hardships, and troubles and tribulations and failures and aches and pains and nightmares and sleepless nights and a multitude of difficulties from the outside; in somewhat the same way the potter treats his wet clay; only to shape, strengthen and make perfect our minds, our soul and our thoughts, as he the creator, had envisioned for us.
The potter ends up with a piece of art , a pot, a pitcher or some other earthen utensil to hold precious, cool, thirst quenching water, the elixir of life. The creator gives our mind, our soul, our life the inner strength, the will power, and the experience to be winners in the final analysis.
I suggest you start taking keen interest in the causes of your failures and the eventual learning from them as I strongly believe that one can learn much more from a single failure than from a score of successes.
Take each hit you receive as the molding hand of God, take each failure as God’s way of making you an eventual winner.
Remember:A success hides many weaknesses. A failure exposes most of them.
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