Fear of Failure
It is easy to be critical of another person by finding fault with what we perceive they are doing, have done, or have not done perfectly. Yet the man who points out how another man has stumbled, finding fault in something he himself has not done, and in what he himself thinks he could have done better, is actually the one at fault. It is the one who has done the work whom he criticizes.
The doer of the work may have stumbled, or perhaps could have done a better job, but he must receive credit for having tried. This man still deserves credit, for he is the one who put forth the effort, whereas the critic has done nothing, and, knowing he has done nothing, wishes to take the spotlight off himself by deflecting attention to the doer.
The credit belongs to the man who has erred, and who perhaps comes up short again and again. He knows that without changing some error or failure, no deed will ever be done. This man takes up a worthy deed with great enthusiasm, even in spite of the fact he may fail. The critic, fearing he will fail, does nothing. The critic will never know either defeat or victory.
Love in Christ,
Abbot Tryphon
Quote of the Day
“I don’t think about death. Whatever the Lord desires. I want to think about Christ. And you, too, open your arms and throw yourselves into Christ’s embrace. Then He lives within you, and you constantly think that you don’t love Him very much, and you want even more to come close to Him, and be with Him. Show disdain for passions, and don’t concern yourselves with the devil. Turn to Christ. For all this to happen it is necessary for grace to come: The divine grace which ever makes good what is weak, and supplies what ls lacking.”
Saint Porphyrios of Kavsokalyvia
Wednesday, August 22, 2024 (7532) / Wednesday, September 04, 2024
Wednesday of the 11th week after Pentecost; Tone I
Xerophagy
Afterfeast of the Dormition
✺ Martyrs Agathonicus of Nicomedia and his companions: Zotikos, Theoprepios, Acyndinos, Severian, Zeno and others who suffered under Maximian († c. 305-311)
Venerable Eulapia the Virgin of Barcelona
Venerable Anthusa and Hieromartyr Bishop Athanasius, who baptised her two servants: Charasim and Neophite
New Hieromartyr Ephraim, Bishop of Selenginsk and Presbyter John Vostrogov († 1918)
Venerable Isaac (the First) of Optina († 1894)
Icon of the Mother of God “Georgian”
New Martyr Macarius, bishop of Orel († 1918)
New Martyr Theodore, bishop of Penza († 1937)
New Martyrs John, bishop of Velikaya Russa and Alexey, archbishop of Omsk († 1937)
Daily Scripture Readings
(Liturgy);(Wednesday of the 11th week after Pentecost)
5 Not that we are sufficient of ourselves to think any thing as of ourselves; but our sufficiency is of God;
6 Who also hath made us able ministers of the new testament; not of the letter, but of the spirit: for the letter killeth, but the spirit giveth life.
7 But if the ministration of death, written and engraven in stones, was glorious, so that the children of Israel could not stedfastly behold the face of Moses for the glory of his countenance; which glory was to be done away:
8 How shall not the ministration of the spirit be rather glorious?
9 For if the ministration of condemnation be glory, much more doth the ministration of righteousness exceed in glory.
10 For even that which was made glorious had no glory in this respect, by reason of the glory that excelleth.
11 For if that which is done away was glorious, much more that which remaineth is glorious.
30 And say, If we had been in the days of our fathers, we would not have been partakers with them in the blood of the prophets.
31 Wherefore ye be witnesses unto yourselves, that ye are the children of them which killed the prophets.
32 Fill ye up then the measure of your fathers.
33 Ye serpents, ye generation of vipers, how can ye escape the damnation of hell?
34 Wherefore, behold, I send unto you prophets, and wise men, and scribes: and some of them ye shall kill and crucify; and some of them shall ye scourge in your synagogues, and persecute them from city to city:
35 That upon you may come all the righteous blood shed upon the earth, from the blood of righteous Abel unto the blood of Zacharias son of Barachias, whom ye slew between the temple and the altar.
36 Verily I say unto you, All these things shall come upon this generation.
37 O Jerusalem, Jerusalem, thou that killest the prophets, and stonest them which are sent unto thee, how often would I have gathered thy children together, even as a hen gathereth her chickens under her wings, and ye would not!
38 Behold, your house is left unto you desolate.
39 For I say unto you, Ye shall not see me henceforth, till ye shall say, Blessed is he that cometh in the name of the Lord.
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