Trials…

In each day of my life, there is a particular crisis that must be resolved before I can successfully progress to the next stage. I can only be successful in each stage if I were able to resolve crisis at the previous stage. What if I don’t resolve it? Then it will continue to affect my life. No matter what, I will always encounter problems, from sunrise to sunset. One of the most basic facts about life is that in order to experience happiness, I need to experience the opposite as well. Everything I go through in my life is the result of my experiences, and everything I do is the result of how I respond to those experiences. I learn to love and love more because I know how hate feels. I want to be with someone because I know what it’s like to be alone. And I want to be happy because I know the sadness can do to me. In other words, I need to to go through the things I may not like in order to appreciate and enjoy the things I do like. When my life is hit with trials and challenges, like sickness, striking a family member or a loved one going to a wayward, I tend to see only the suffering stage. But there is a reason I’m given such adversities – the pain or agony I endure is actually the prelude to something better. Do you sometimes wonder why there is so much suffering in the world? Why are the innocent and those who are trying to do good subjected to pain, heartaches, sickness, tragedy, and death? I don’t fully know why we suffer, but the things I know is that suffering has a purpose, a very important purpose. “Suffering and joy teach us, if we allow them, how to make the leap of empathy, which transports us into the soul and heart of another person. In those transparent moments we know other people’s joys and sorrows, and we care about their concerns as if they were our own.” According to ‘Aristotle’ “Suffering becomes beautiful when anyone bears great calamities with cheerfulness, not through greatness of mind.” And I believe there is suffering in life, and there is defeats. No one can avoid them. But it’s better to lose some of the battles in the struggles for your dreams than to be a defeated without ever knowing what you’re fighting for. I cannot avoid challenges in my life, but I can learn how to face my challenges because I now know what to do about them when they come again. Thank you God for the joy and pain in my life it made me more stronger than ever.

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