On Thursday night, I quoted from 2 Timothy 1 and Paul’s admonition to keep our special gift stirred up: God doesn’t want us to be shy with his gifts, but bold and loving and sensible. Sometimes boldness becomes distorted and the flame of the gift consumes not only the person but those around them. I think that is part of Phil’s message to all of us in his book, Me, Myself & Bob. Some of our failures are private and well hidden and some, like the failure of Veggie Tales, are painfully public. To take a small company and experience revenue growth of 3300% or from $1.3 million to $44 million and put Veggie Tales on Inc. magazine’s list of fastest growing companies is a thrill. But, as Phil says, “unprecedented success is extremely difficult to manage because it is unprecedented.” And then to see that company overextend itself and spiral down into bankruptcy and later being sold was like the loss of a family. “To Lisa and I it felt a bit like our children were being put up for auction.  Like we’d lost the family farm, and now the neighbors were all coming over to see if they wanted to bid on the kids.  It hurt.”