Hard times are often blessings in disguise. Let go and let life strengthen you. No matter how much it hurts, hold your head up, and keep going. This is an important lesson to learn when you’re having a rough day. (Unknown)
I passed a church today sporting the sprightly message topic What is a Pain 4 U is an Opportunity 4 God. I had a variety of thoughts about that, but the one I finally settled upon was another old saying that has been strangely reassuring to me: I turned to God when my foundations were shaking, only to find that it is God who is shaking them. Or yet another one that I really love: There are some angels whose only task is to make sure we don’t get too comfortable and fall asleep and miss our lives.
This new/old wisdom, or take on a rough day, always reassures me when, like today, I find myself shoving at some boulders in my path. You would think that at my age, I would have learned to walk around those boulders, or at least sit a spell and enjoy the composition of the granite or sandstone or whatever they’re made of. But no, I just shove away, knowing I can’t move ’em, but determined, in my stubbornness, I guess, to keep tryin.’
What I know in my better moments, is that change and growth and transformation of our spirits and ourselves doesn’t come without a price. And what our fearful selves perceive as an “emergency,” or in this case one of those boulders, is perhaps something new trying to “emerge.”
So I will wait and pay attention to “those better angels of our natures” who are perhaps trying to nudge me into some new awareness or insight or potential. And, if this is just so much nonsense, this idea of taking each new challenge as an opportunity to grow, at the very least, in thinking about it, I will have distracted myself from the problem at hand!
And if it strikes my beloved reader that the photograph accompanying this blog is a little obtuse, at least maybe it distracted you, or even made you smile, just in case you’re having your own rough day.