273 Faults, Failures and Faith 1999 UUA General Assembly 273 Faults, Failures and Faith Planning Committee Worship Theologians talk about the concept of original sin and we cringe. We're not perfect. There's a crack in Emerson, too. Bells called me into the sanctuary. She told the story of two brothers and the sharing of grain and love between them.
Every failure holds the seed of the next success.
In fact, as the story of the prominent surgeon who committed suicide at 50 after years of educational, professional and financial success with no visible failures reveals, we need some failure in our lives. We may never know why someone might brush off or refuse our compassion. We don't know what another individual is hearing. So we will offer compassion to all around us as an act of faith. There have been 445 accesses to this page since June 25, 1999.