Episode notes
- Our goal is to develop a supernatural outlook on failure. When we do this, “the flaws which inevitably attend a created order which has known original sin no longer have the power to daunt utterly: they are judged materially no longer. When supernatural values are substituted for earthly values, a complete reversal takes place and the things which menaced before are now so many evidences of God’s loving providence.”
- First principle: Failure is necessary for our self-knowledge. We are incomplete without failure. We have to die before we can live; we have to be weak in order to be strong; we have to be crucified before we can rise up.
- Second principle: Our failures teach us God’s love for us.
- Our failure is always a failure “of a kind that can be explained by love, and which will therefore not destroy but perfect … with ...