I have a friend who is going through a rough time and life is piling on him hard right now. We've all been there, right? When you feel stressed and scared and hopeless, and fear for the future. You haven't quite hit rock bottom, but you can visualize it clearly.
My experience is that those times - when I felt as though I'd lost everything - were a motivator to change my life for the better. I thought my old life was perfect and I was happy - No. There was way more happiness and perfection to be had, but I wasn't going to achieve it (or even look for it) because I was happy and comfortable with what I had. Almost every time life has thrown me a major hardship, it became the stepping stone to bigger and better things. Every tear shed has led me to where I am right now.
Do you find that to be the case in your life? That something you perceived at the time to be a tragedy, not counting the death of a loved one - lost your job, divorced, health scare, etc - turned out to be a blessing in disguise?
Years ago when I was in my 20s, a single mother with a dead-end job and two kids to raise, I was going through a rough time and stressing to a friend, and he said, "You know, Dee Jay, God always answers our prayers. It's just sometimes the answer is 'no' because He has something else in mind for you." I've always remembered that and tried to look past the hardship I was going through to see how it might be a path toward a gift I never knew existed, and therefore wasn't working toward.
Do you find that to be the case in your own life? That something you thought at the time was a tragedy turned out to be the best thing that ever happened to you?
My experience is that those times - when I felt as though I'd lost everything - were a motivator to change my life for the better. I thought my old life was perfect and I was happy - No. There was way more happiness and perfection to be had, but I wasn't going to achieve it (or even look for it) because I was happy and comfortable with what I had. Almost every time life has thrown me a major hardship, it became the stepping stone to bigger and better things. Every tear shed has led me to where I am right now.
Do you find that to be the case in your life? That something you perceived at the time to be a tragedy, not counting the death of a loved one - lost your job, divorced, health scare, etc - turned out to be a blessing in disguise?
Years ago when I was in my 20s, a single mother with a dead-end job and two kids to raise, I was going through a rough time and stressing to a friend, and he said, "You know, Dee Jay, God always answers our prayers. It's just sometimes the answer is 'no' because He has something else in mind for you." I've always remembered that and tried to look past the hardship I was going through to see how it might be a path toward a gift I never knew existed, and therefore wasn't working toward.
Do you find that to be the case in your own life? That something you thought at the time was a tragedy turned out to be the best thing that ever happened to you?
