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I am happy that J. Todd Foster is going to be the head person at our newspaper. I read an article he wrote in which he tuned up a lady with a severe stereotype about the South.
Naturally I wish him success and the fact that he is a stereotype buster inclines me to think he will be. But today I wish to bust the stereotype that we can always assure success in our lives. In order to really soar in life, failure has to be OK.
How can we say failure must be OK when we say faith moves mountains? Well, we don’t say, faith always moves mountains the first time. Thomas Edison had faith he could make a light bulb that worked, but it took hundreds of experiments to do it.
We do not say, “Faith moves every mountain,” because we have enough sense to know some mountains are not supposed to be moved. If you moved Lookout Mountain, you would destroy the Incline, Point Park, the Civil War monuments and thousands of homes. Proving you have faith is not that important.