the flaws on floors.

You say to "be strong".
How do I 'be' it if I do not go through the training, the practice.
Because strength is built through pain and effort, much of both.
And I falter each time I realise my efforts fall short, each shameful moment where I miss the mark set for me. When I consider the dues to be paid, and I shrink back in despair.
So how do I train despite all this? How do I honour You even in failure?

Mistakes cause more pain than necessary, yet are they not how we learn best?
It is all part of the process - I concur.
Still, it makes it no less of a failure.

If only life's successes would come.

Yet, life awaits as sleep beckons.
And all I see on the horizon, are frothy seas and churning waves. And my God who commands the seas has told me to advance into them. Is it not so much easier to run inland?

I do so desire to be bold.