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Failures and Relationships! BLAH!!!

(Editor's Note: It felt a bit cathartic writing about such a topic. I know my friends enjoy reading these kinds of topics. I can only hope you all have a hearty laugh cause I did! Hey, I entertain myself!) Last night at the Thursday night small group, we started the first week of discussion on John Ortberg's book If You Want To Walk On Water, You've Got to Get Out of the Boat . In short, the first chapter is about taking risks and introducing us to the concept of failure. The scripture revolved around Matthew 14:22-36; the story of Jesus walking on water. One of the questions that came up in the discussion book was something along the lines of "is there a failure that haunts you?". The first thing that came to my mind was relationships with girls. But I should add that they DON'T haunt me. I laugh at myself anytime I reminisce. Let me elaborate. In a sense, I guess they can all be construed as failures. But as the book described, failure is more of a per...