Hello My Friend!
This quote “we don’t grow when things are easy, we grow when we face challenges” has some serious implications. Does this mean challenges are a good thing? When something horrific happens…is that a good thing? Suffering is good?
Well, I …don’t believe suffering is good. And the challenges people face – all over the world, horrific things from day to day, surely those events and violations are not “good for them!”
To come to peace with this I’ve decided to understand it this way: The challenging event (from mildly annoying to horrific violations) can be used as a medium of growth, as leverage – a sort of sling shot, to catapult us into another realm of existence. Challenges can transform us: For good or bad – it’s all our choice.
Challenges don’t grow you, choices do.
The growth is in our choices, how we choose to respond to a challenge – as an optimist, searching for the solutions and opportunities or, as a pessimist, becoming a victim and surrendering all our remaining power in the situation.
So, when you hit upon a rock, do you just shrivel up and “die” (on any level) or, do you take a deep breath and go around it so you can blossom into the best you possible? I encourage you to choose the latter and emerge victorious!
Wishing You an Abundance of Joy & Peace,
Julette Millien
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