Failure, Is Part Of Independence.

    Recently my daughter went for a sleep over. This was only the second time my wife and I let our daughter stay overnight at a friends house. My daughter was very excited. but my wife was concerned that our daughter Cassandra,  might become homesick. She kept asking her if she thought she would be alright. My daughter assured her mother over and over again that she was a big girl now and she promised to call if there was any problems.Cassandra,  had a wonderful time so wonderful she did not even remember to call her mommy to tell her good night.Finally,  I called her friends mother and she had my daughter come to the phone and tell her goodnight but what I found strange was as the call ended it was my daughter Cassandra who  said, " Don't worry mommy it's only for one night you'll be alright. My wife cried and missed our daughter the whole night and the night day she was so happy to have her back home safe and sound. She said to me later," I thought Cassandra,  would not be ready to be away from me overnight but what I discovered was that I was the one who was not ready to let her go and be away from me over night.She then said, "I guess I'm just not ready for her not to need me so much." I thought to myself spoken like a caring mother.
    Parents,  may hate to admit it, but the truth is a child is born very dependent on it's parents but before too long they begin to long to be independent.As much as parents may wish they could always protect their children from experiencing the their first disappointing failure but if a child never fails a child will never learn for failure is part of learning.A desire to be independent is instilled in mankind by God in fact this is the key reason God,  gave man a free will and the ability to make choices.Sometimes, one makes wrong choices.but one need not remain discouraged because of an experienced failure. It has been said, that one's greatest  glory is not in never failing but rising up every time one falls.
    As a Christian,  who has failed more often then I like to admit, I appreciate the fact that God, never gives up on those who seek to learn from his wisdom and follow his will in order to have a life full of purpose. The Bible says Christians,  must forgive and be understanding of others failures.The Bible,  says, in Proverbs 24:16 "A just man falleth seven times but riseth up again but the wicked shall fall into mischief." The measure of a man is not measured by failure but rather what a mam learns from it. and the same can be said of a nation America, did not become a great and independent nation because she made no mistakes or experienced no failures through out her history America, became a great nation because she learned from past failures and realized that God,  is the author of liberty and the creator of free will. I am afraid however that America, is loosing her spirit of independence. America,  it seems is learning to fail because she is failing to learn.from the  lessons of history Americans,  now it seems seek to be dependent on government and independent from God and history has shown over and over again that it must be the other way around. If America fails to learn this basic truth she will lose her Independence and the blessing of God that made her great. Failure can only be part of a nation's independence if that nations continues to learn from it's failures. If America is to remain a free an independent nation she must be dependent  on God,  alone. As always my friends, these thoughts remain, just some words to think on.