If there is one thing we all hate doing it’s failing. We want to be the winners all the time. But to be a winner sometimes means there has to be a lot of failures preceding it. Many people that are at the pinnacle of success had to experience what it felt like to be humbled deeply by circumstances, to be in uncomfortable and complicated messes, and know how to plunge ahead and keep going despite the difficulties.

Many times people that have been through the worst are the ones that fascinate me the most. The ones that fascinated me growing up in the church were not the ones that had everything together or that had the white picket fences with the perfect children and the white dog. The ones that I looked up to are the ones that I knew were facing insurmountable odds, yet they were still sitting in the pew smiling on Sunday mornings.

I’m talking about the fighters. The ones that deal with failure but they won’t let failure have the last word. No matter what is taken from them, they are still fighting for what is theirs. They still believe even with no evidence. They are secure even with no security.

There are many people like that in our society. People that even though they have faced intense emotional pain, they are still fighting to get up from where they are.

And I want you to know that if you are one of those people, it is only a matter of time before you will win. A fighter doesn’t stay down. A fighter knows that you can laugh at me; you can talk about me. You can do whatever you want, but one day you’ll look at me and see something different than you see now. You’ll see someone who won!