You have failed, but you are not a failure.
You are a product of your past, but you don't have to be a prisoner to it.
These words jump out as me as I'm reading Destiny: Let God Use You Like He Made You by Tony Evans.
Evans opines that "Joseph delivered the Bible's greatest statement on destiny":
Meeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeow!