On Failure

 Comfort Those Who Mourn: Failure
We must understand the ambiguities of our own beings.  We must tolerate paradoxes and that spectrum of ambiguities in our living being. This, my friend, is the Cross.  In humility we must stay there, at the Foot of the Cross…for we live After the Fall.
"How much does it have to hurt, how many people have to be victimized before we, as the human family, face and deal with the 'invisible war' claiming so many lives?"
Ezekiel 34:4: 
  "You have not strengthened the weak or healed the sick or bound up the injured.  You have not brought back the strays or searched for the lost.  You have ruled them harshly and brutally."
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St. John of the Cross esteemed tenderness as one of the characteristics of true sanctity. In this world ravaged by the worship of force and violence it is a true fruit of humility and the love of God.