The Balance of Wins and Losses
Life, is a perfect balance of both wins and losses. I have never met a successful person who has NOT endured a loss in their life. Rather it be financial or emotional loss, loss was and is, and WILL be endured. Period. What’s incredible however; is the fact that in the same breath, and scope, there is the win. I have never met a successful person who has not endured wins in their life. There is a perfect balance in life as it pertains to wins and losses. This is what I have learned… God, in his infinite wisdom and persistent love for us, has devised a way, where the wins will always trump or “out weight” losses. SO, though there is the common dosage of the two, there is a restoration, building up of, edifying power that resonates in the win, that does not resonate in the loss. This is good news.
Here is another way to look at this… A very close friend of mine, Hope Allen, says it this way…
We are actually “living IN THE WIN”. When we awake each morning we are walking fully and wholly in the favor of God, AND if we could for just one moment stop, and think about the goodness of it all, WHILE considering those who are totally absent from the idea that THEY TOO are “living in the win”, we would stop complaining so much, and pursue those things that matter…
I LOVE this, and I feel it’s true. Fact of it all is this: Though there is indeed a perfect balance of both wins and losses, in the bigger more relevant (important) picture. We are “living IN THE WIN”. This is beyond good news… To me.
So… Take your wins… and take your losses knowing that if you can stay focused on what matters, counting your wins and the total sum of the implication they have in your life, you will fair out far greater than the man or woman who dwells in his or her losses far too long and too much.
