It's amazing how failing can lead to victory.
Athletes experience this all the time: a team loses in the playoffs and wins their championship the following year. This is often partly the result of personnel changes or being healthier during the playoffs, too, but they inevitably talk about the lessons they learned in the previous year's heartbreak. In our personal lives, too, failure can lead to growth in ways we don't anticipate. I am so much emotionally healthier at 54 than I was at 34. I have a friend who is learning by necessity some of the lessons he just couldn't take to heart when he was in a less restrained physical and personal environment. Sometimes it is nothing other than the humility of facing our shortcomings that opens us up to seeing ourselves - and as a result, our relationships - in a fresh and transforming way.
We should not be surprised by this. The greatest victory we can ever know came through the abyss of apparent defeat.
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