Sunday blessings, friends! How can I pray for you this week? 🙏💗 School is starting back in my community this week and is coming soon in others. Along with the excitement, this can also come with some amount of anxiety for parents, students, and teachers alike. Mistakes get made, feelings get hurt, and friendships don’t always work out the way we hope they will. Even though we want to focus on success to plant our seeds for a fruitful future, I would also like to challenge you to consider that the best fruits can also be planted by the seeds of our failures. No one who has been greatly successful in life has ever dodged the bullet of at least one great failure. Apple founder Steve Jobs was fired by his own company at a peak moment in its history. But he used that personal and public failure as an opportunity to become more innovative than ever and went on to create Pixar and the technology behind the iPhone. Some of the world’s most inspirational speakers have also experienced great personal loss and have used that as an opportunity to forge deeper and more meaningful connections in their lives. Lysa TerKeurst was forced to battle cancer alone after her husband left her for another woman. This planted the seeds of the Proverbs 31 ministry, one of the largest Christian Womens ministries today. So whether you are in the group of people who will be affected by a new year of school or if you are at a different stage confronting the tensions of various challenges and opportunities in life, I urge you to consider the very good fruit you can bear from seeds of both success and failure if you trust in God to provide the living water that can complete every good work he begins in you. ✨ #SundayBlessings #prayerrequests #ichoseyou #goandbearfruit #fruitthatwilllast #christianwritersofinstagram #christianwriter #cainspirations #kristicainbooks https://www.instagram.com/p/CgrUFnoAsxg/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=
