“We fall down but we get up.” Donnie McClurkin
If you ever fall and need to be picked up, I'd like to invite you to think about this truly heartwarming story of victory in the face of life's challenges. Have some tissues to hand... you will need them. http://tinyurl.com/34g95tr
The passage below is an excerpt from my iFactor book which I think reinforces one of the morals of Ben's story in the video.
Music has been used as a source of strength and inspiration since the dawn of time. Medicine even uses it to heal. The lyrics of a song can soothe an aching heart, uplift a down trodden spirit and re-ignite a broken dream.
I was moved one Sunday in church by the powerful lyrics from a song, “We fall down but we get up, we fall down but we get up.” These words resonated with me and I reflected as the choir passionately delivered these simple yet profound success principles.
In life we all fall down at times, we first experience this as toddlers when we attempt to take our first steps in life. Our initial failed attempt to walk is met with smiles and nothing more than possibly a slightly bruised bum. We do not give up, we keep trying because even at that early age we realise that falling down is a process on our way to standing up.
Unfortunately this perception of us falling down changes as we mature into adulthood. It is no longer our bums that are bruised when we fall down, but our egos. We see falling down as something to be embarrassed about, something to be scorned on.
We hide our falls for fear of being seen as less than we are and beat ourselves up over the errors of judgement that led to them.
Here is the reality of life, we all fall down at times, it does not matter who you are. We all have times when aspects of our life are in disarray. This is true of the great leaders in the world and the everyday person. It is nothing to be ashamed of, there is nothing wrong, it is a normal part of life.
The only time that ‘falling down’ in your life will cause you a real problem is when you ‘stay down’ and you make it even worse by ‘getting down’.
When you get down, you look up at the world instead of looking in the world. Thus, you cannot see your place in the world and even if you do, you may not feel you are worthy or confident enough to claim it.
You may fall down at times in your life, however do not ‘stay down’ or ‘get down’. Get back up again and wipe yourself off, brush off any self-pity and view the experience as character building, making you an ever stronger and wiser person on your journey through life.
Written by: Ken Barnes
Passage from The iFactor
