In recent months I have struggled with deep discouragement. It is the kind of repeated discouragement that is compounded by common imperfections of my life that I have failed to overcome. It is the kind of discouragement that comes from knowing with 100% certainty that I will fail again, and I will have to build the courage to make another attempt. What makes this even more difficult is that knowing that I will fail crushes almost any desire I have to try. I do not consider myself a weak person, at least in some respects. But I have failed hundreds and even thousands of times. By the grace and strength of God I have gotten up time and time...