When Italian glassblowers of the Middle Ages discovered a flaw in a beautiful piece of glassware, they converted that failure into a common wine flask. The flask was called in Italian a “fiasco.” That word has come to mean any type of failure. . . but failure is not final if we have a purpose beyond the fiasco. We can make a wine flask with our failures. But be careful! This is not an exercise in existential, self actualization hocus pocus where we take lemons and make lemonade. No, failure is overcome, has meaning, when we can gain the bigger picture. When we can discover God’s plan for our lives. Or, if that is too arduous a task, or if God is simply not talking right now, we need to learn to rest in His will no matter where we are and whatever may happen to us. Failures are not final if we access a partnership that we have with God through Jesus Christ. After all, if God is final then nothing else is. God will always have the last word.

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