"For whoever wants to save their life will lose it, but whoever loses their life for me will find it. What good will it be for someone to gain the whole world yet forfeit their soul?"
Matthew 16:25-26a
Growing up as a Korean-American, my mom occasionally shared a common Korean expression with me, which was “losing is winning.” It’s this idea that when we “lose” or “fail” we can learn something valuable from that experience, grow in our character, or affirm something we need to know about ourselves or the situations we are in. As a kid and teenager, I never really understood the full meaning of it. But now as an adult, I see that our faith cannot grow without losing.
