CMON, MAKE A MISTAKE!

In most of our lives, successes and failures are as tangled as fishing line after a bad cast.  Or, to put it in another way, failure often births success followed by failure and success. That's why resumes are patently so unreliable.  We take all of our "successes," delete all the miscues, dips, firings, let-gos, and bad choices; then we present our best, but unreal life, to a prospective employer.  

Why don't we rather view our life from both our failures and successes?  I think it because the idea has been ingrained from birth: don't make mistakes.  Avoid mistakes at all costs.    

In the end, winning and losing, success and failure isn't what our life is about.  It's all about intensity and passion. It's living the very fullest, brimming-over life that God offers you.  It's living into Jesus' claim, I have come so you can have overflowing, abundant life.  That's the way I want to live my life.  That's the way I want to leave this life.  Full.  Overflowing.  Passionate.  Intense.  

I recently ran across this thought:  "Pursuing victory and avoiding defeat is not what the highest achievers are about. They're hunting for bigger game."  Are you hunting for bigger game?  Are you risk-hungry or dare-starved?  If so, you may want to talk to the One who is the source of that stuff!
  

MAKE LIFE INTERESTING.  MAKE MISTAKES!