The Challenges of Life

Challenges of Life

by Steve Brunkhorst

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Sometimes we feel as though we are being tested to the limit of our endurance. We might set out to make our mark on the world and find that "school" just began instead of ended. Nothing has ever been so challenging! We may suffer losses, and quite often, life will not seem fair. In those times, consider how you are being led forward.

Difficult challenges lead us to grow more resilient, loving, knowledgeable, and capable. So how can we find these blessings in difficult challenges?

First, we need to acknowledge our challenges for what they are. We need to see clearly our roadblocks, take full responsibility for meeting them, and only then can we focus creatively on our desired outcomes.

Next, we need focused vision. With steady, faith-filled awareness and acceptance, we find solutions. We receive ideas from an infinite Intelligence, and we see our present situations in a new light.

We receive guidance, and even in adversity, we are strengthened. Challenges don't ever leave us the same as they found us, and we don't ever leave a challenge the same as we found it. We can choose to have our challenges leave us wiser and more compassionate.

Helen Keller once said, "Be of good cheer. Do not think of today's failures, but of the success that may come tomorrow. You have set yourselves a difficult task, but you will succeed if you persevere; and you will find joy in overcoming obstacles. Remember, no effort that we make to attain something beautiful is ever lost."

With faith, we can surmount difficulties and heal hurts that once felt overwhelming. With clear vision, we find blessings on the other side of our barriers. And like the coral in today's tale, we will always be blessed with challenge. We will change, adapt, and grow. Life makes sure of it.

"Every one must be challenged. A day dawns, quite like other days; in it a single hour comes, quite like a other hours; but in that day and in that hour the chance of a lifetime faces us."
-Maltbie Davenport Babcock (1858-1901)

"Only by contending with challenges that seem to be beyond your strength to handle at the moment you can grow more surely toward the stars."
-Brian Tracy

"If we could look into each other's hearts and understand the unique challenges each of us face, I think we would treat each other much more gently, with more love, patience, tolerance, and care."
-Marvin J. Ashton (1915-1994)
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