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His father was a horse trainer who was constantly on the move from one race track to the other. 

Because of this, the boy’s schooling was always being interrupted.  At one of the many schools in which he found himself, a high school teacher asked his class to write a paper outlining their goals for their life.

The young man took to the task with great gusto. He wrote of how he wanted some day to own a horse ranch. 

He drew pictures of the ranch, its rolling hills, its mile after mile of whitened fences.  He drew the plans for a magnificent home he would build on the highest point of his land. 

 

Here he would sit on his porch and look down upon it all.  Finally, he turned in his paper.  When he got it back there was a great big red F scrawled across the first page. Along with the failing grade, was a notation from the teacher that he wished to talk with him.

The teacher laid it on the line. 

He told him he had given him an F because what he had written could not be considered goals but an impossible dream for a lad like him.  “Your father is an immigrant.  You haven’t even had a good education.  You have no money.  How in heavens name do you think you will ever be able to buy horses and breeding stock and pay stud fees?  You haven’t a chance to make what you have written come true.  Rewrite your paper more sensibly and I will consider giving you a better grade.

The young boy went home and talked with his father who simply replied, “It’s up to you, son, not the teacher.  It’s up to you.”  The young boy went back to school the next day and as he placed his unchanged paper in the hands of the teacher, he told him, “You keep the F.  I’ll keep my dream.”

After having been graded F too often in your faith-life, being a better Christian, a better person, born again, refreshed, redeemed and regenerated, may seem to you an impossible dream.  

But you see, the F we get when we fail at being better, when our Lord is in the picture, that F doesn’t stand for Failure, it stands for Forgiveness. 

And He expects us to pick ourselves up, and with His help, give another go at it.  And then  it is a possible dream. 

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