Life Challenges
Life can give us some very interesting challenges to face. The question is what do we do with it? Do we let it break us or do we fight and learn through it?
I have a walking stick that my father cut down many, many years ago on the farm. This piece of wood were standing in our garage for a very long time without much thought going into it, until I started my spiritual journey.
The lesson it taught me were both simple and obvious, but at the same time it made me understand that nature can be a very harsh place, even in its simplest form like growing … like life is.
As all trees, it began life to grow. At some point, a parasite plant wrapped itself around this young tree, and started to leach of it. This young tree however, was not going to allow the parasite to take away its right to live. It fought through the invasion of its life source, and came out the other side alive! It is malformed and obscured, but continued its upward growth. The malformed part is hard solid wood that one will not easily break.
One can still see the marks of the parasite plant on it, but it does not define the stick. It becomes a part of the bigger picture.
Now, to get to what this taught me …
Life throws challenges at us constantly. What we do with these challenges is totally up to us. We have basically two choices:
1. You will let it break you / get you down
2. You will fight.
I strongly believe that everything in life is there to teach us something, and I mean EVERYTHING!
It is however up to YOU to see and understand the lesson. If you don’t, it will come again and again until you understand and acknowledge it for what it is. Only then will you grow past the challenge and obstruction and continue your journey. And yes … like the obscured part of that walking stick, it will make that part you your being harder and stronger! But is that not the point of life?
Yes, that part of your journey will have the scars of the challenge, but it will not define the journey. It becomes a small part of the outcome of the lesson. The bigger picture will be much more colourful and full of character. Something unique! Something that is YOU!
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