Sometimes your clearest view of God will be in the fire and trials of life.

Have you ever wanted something or someone so bad and then didn't get your way and labeled yourself or your life as a complete failure? Sounds dramatic, but I've been there before where I felt like everything I was trying to do just wasn't working and it seemed like one failure after another.

Well, I'm here to tell you failure can be horrible and amazing all at the same time.

Failure means you tried. Failure means you most likely stepped out of your comfort zone and put your neck on the line. Failure means you're one step closer to making something happen. Failure means you're alive and feeling some type of way.

Lebron James didn't make the basketball team in 8th grade. Walt Disney was fired from a newspaper company because he "lacked ideas and creativity". Oprah was let go from a TV news station because her boss felt she "wasn't made for TV". If that doesn't give you some sort of reassurance that failure is not an end-all situation than I don't know what will.

These successful people are comfortable to fail and fail often; that's why they're so successful. They've grown comfortable with the idea of failing because they know it's going to push them in the right direction and every time it will get better.

Sometimes God has a greater plan than what you could have ever imagined for yourself.

One door closes and a bigger and better one will open. Just give it time. Whether it's getting rejected from a job, a position, a boy, a girl...it might not seem too incredible of a feeling right then and there, but I can almost bet you anything you'll be grateful for it later.

You're not failing or missing out on a single thing if you're working towards your goals and creating a better version of yourself every day.

So fail faithfully, fail fearfully, and fail forward.