Good people might fall again and again, but they always get up. It is the wicked who are defeated by their troubles. [Proverbs 25:16 (ERV)]

Thank you, Heavenly Father, for the encouragement and strength you give us when we get disheartened. Thank you for our failures and what we learn from experiencing them. Help us to remember that you measure success in an entirely different way than we. What we may consider losing is often what you consider a lesson well taught!

Winning isn’t anything. You can live an entire lifetime and never win, so it can’t be that important. But losing is as much a part of life as breathing. … Losing, and learning to go on and live again, is the only kind of winning that truly matters. [John R. Powers from “The Junk-Drawer Corner-Store Front-Porch Blues”]