As the sun began to set over the crystal clear waters off the Carolina coast, 3 people found themselves walking along the surf. A father, his small son, and another man. The father was holding his sons hands and helping him along when his son suddenly began to get really excited. He looked up at his father, and his father smiled back. In this instant the child ran towards the water. However, the child didn't make it very far before he faceplanted into the sand and started crying. His father quickly walked the few short steps over to his son, picked him up, and held him tightly.
The observer could not understand what he had just seen. Why would this loving father let his son fall? Just then, the father sensed what his companion was thinking. The father quietly said, "If I never let my son fall, he would never learn to get back up. He must learn to walk one step before he can walk two. These things are never learned in a day, they take a lifetime. I know that I will never let my son do anything outside of where I can still protect him, but he must learn to walk on his own. And then, before you know it, the one step turns into two, and eventually he will get all the way to the ocean. Only a loving father would let his son do such a thing, you see, what you see as not loving, I see as loving. Only a loving father would teach his son to rise when he falls and to take one more step than the last time.
"Why do we fall, sir? So that we might learn to pick ourselves up." Batman
"Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall."
Confucius
Proverbs 24:16 - "For though a righteous man falls seven times, he rises again."
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