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Aug 23·edited Aug 23Liked by Jess

I failed in an A-level exam too! I went to an international school and hoping to get to Europe for higher education I took an Art A-level course (along with German, but I did ok in that). I was devastated that I failed my Art A level exam but continued making art anyway. Never made a penny from it, except someone auctioned one piece I made to raise funds for ministry. That failure and a few others that followed should have disqualified me as an artist forever but this is all I've wanted to be and what I still do, qualified or not.

Sometimes Failure just means you didn't make someone else's standard, but that failure doesn't define who you are and shouldn't affect your deepest purpose. Yes we all fall short, but God redeems us out of our failures and loves us in spite of them.

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Oh I love this story! 😀 It just goes to show that God calls the ‘unqualified’ and in our calling, and responding to our calling, we qualify in God’s eyes.

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Thank you so much for sharing this.

I’m a teacher (part time) and this perception of « failure » is something I’m trying to transmit to my very young students (and their parents…as much as possible). How can we talk about failure in a 5 year old?! Yet it starts early.

I also love the line in the poem about resilience being healing. 🙏🏻

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Thank you for your kind comment, Dacha. I think learning to embrace failure - as heavy as it seems - is such an important lesson to teach early on. If you can't allow yourself to fail, you stop yourself from succeeding...

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I just did a reel on this a few days ago. Failing is a gift! If people only knew! It’s all about perception 😃

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YES! Love this! Perception is everything, isn’t it? Since posting this, I’ve noticed a few things come up online celebrating ‘failing’. I’m glad the attitude around failing is finally changing :)

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