thoughts before work

8:28

Lots of thoughts on my mind recently, so I thought I'd take this short time that I have in the morning to jot them down -- my thoughts are more creative in the morning. This is basically my twitter, no? Except I can't express myself in 140 characters.

Wrestling with different philosophies:

There are two sayings that if I ever were considering to get a tattoo, it would be one of them, and one of them is this: Don't fear failure, fear not trying.
...or "You miss 100% of the shots you don't take," yatta yatta. In startup/cs world this is "fail early and fail often." This makes sense to me; we learn so much through our failures, that we shouldn't fear them. It's only really bad that when we fail, we refuse to get up again. This is seen through destroying relationships when one person is so put off by the other person, they "stop trying." Perhaps their sense of trust in the other gender (or same gender...) is lost.

Or even simpler, this is seen when you try to speak up in a group of people and your statement crashes and burns, and you've made a fool out of yourself. So you fear to speak up ever again.

I think this is a great saying that tells us to never stop trying. I truly believe that you can get farther than you ever imagined if you simply have the resiliency to never stop trying.

However, the Christian philosophy is this -- being holy is impossible, and trying to be holy is futile --you are already made holy by Christ. Some of my prayers recently have literally been -- Christ I can't do this. You do it. You go before me and do what I cannot. Honestly, I'm not to sure what it looks like for Christ to do something through you. Okay, maybe it's not too hard to imagine. It's when someone does something that WWJD. But it's not you who did it?

Of my tiny faith, I'm a believer in the holy spirit being able to produce action in people.

So ultimately, my question is there a merging of these two philosophies of "never stop trying" and "Christ do everything because I can't."

The point of resiliency in failure is to make progress, albeit maybe really slowly, but progress is progress. The point of watching the holy spirit take action in you is to build your trust in Christ.

So maybe the merging of these two is really that we should never stop trusting in Christ, so that our trust builds? Hmm...

Well that's oddly simple, and disappointingly seemingly correct.

Well, I thought that wouldn't take so long to jot down. Other thoughts for other times.

If you follow my train of thought, you get a gold star. Another goal of mine...to make my writing clearer and more concise.