As it is said, "A life without difficulties is a classroom without lessons."
Thank God Life is difficult! I really mean that. The problems we overcome allow us to experience the richness of life and the joy that goes along with it.
I have had much adversity in my life. Some of you know what it has been some do not, but I am here to say that I do not regret it. I have been given such a gift of being able to deal with the adversity and use it as life lessons.
Here is something to think about. Before emerging from its cocoon, the butterfly has a really fat body and folded limp wings. It is not the image of strength that and beauty that we imagine when we mention the word butterfly. It cannot free itself from the cocoon without a long struggle. It pushes and strains and convulses. Liquid from its body is forced into the veins of its wings. Very slowly, bit by bit the wings become extended and stronger. And soon after great struggle, and pressure the butterfly breaks free of its cocoon. And what a beautiful butterfly it becomes.
So you see my friends, it is our attitude that determines whether we benefit from adversity. Remember this: The same furnace that melts gold also hardens clay. With each affliction, those who have a hardened attitude grow harder, more callous and cynical. Yet those who willingly allow themselves to be forge, hammered and shaped by adversity, endlessly grow into a better person, endlessly bloom into a flower to bright to behold.
What will you be? Clay? Gold?
I choose gold.....after great adversity...I am a better person.
Tags: Dealing With Adversity Personal Development
