'Concern yourself not with what you tried and failed in, but with what is still possible for you to do." St. John XXIII

Sometimes we allow our past failures to determine our present life. "I have tried that and it doesn't work."  This attitude leads to a sense of futility and hopelessness, which is detrimental to any spiritual growth. We fail to see that there are still possible things that can be accomplished.  Don't be blinded by the past. Ask God for the grace to see what is still possible for us to do in life.  A person may be bed ridden, but the person can still intercede, offering the suffering of age for the needs of others. If St. Paul had remained in his past failure as a persecutor of Christians, he would never have become the Apostle to the Gentiles. Only God knows what he still has in store for each of us to do. Be attentive to his grace.