This week’s poem comes from the book, "The Secret of Achievement" written by Orison Swett Marden and published in 1898. The poem reminded me of a Sunday School lesson I once taught. While teaching a group of teens how to look on the brighter side of life, one young man asked, "If there’s a way to fund something good in every situation, try this. What if I fall and slip on the ice outside of the church building today?" I thought for a moment and then replied, "Then the elder church members will know that the spot is slippery." This answer may not have been the answer he desired, but it is so very true of life.
If nothing else, maybe someone else can learn from our mistakes. 
Fail – yet rejoice; because no less
The failure which makes thy distress
May teach another full success.It may be that, in some great need,
Thy life’s poor fragments are decreed
To help build up a lofty deed.-A. A. Procter
