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Topic:
Hope And Adversity
A lot of good can come out of adversity. When we are feeling the pain
of adversity, the adversity makes us think nothing good can happen for
us and we lose hope. However, when we are standing in the Light, there
is a way to make good things happen. Willfully making good things happen
when we are going through adversity is called growth.
A man came back from a weekend retreat experience and when a friend
asked him how it was, he said, "I died!" The friend asked him
what he meant. "You see," the man answered, "I went to
this thing not knowing what to expect. But in the process of that long
weekend, I discovered I had spent my whole life hiding behind a lot of
masks. I realized I had never even let my wife see me as I really was.
I'd been playing games with her, and playing games with my children, and
playing games with others -- never letting anybody know who I really am.
The worst of it was to discover even I didn't know myself. I was not in
touch with my own honest feelings about myself. And, as all of this was
being exposed over the weekend, I died over and over again." It is
a painful thing for a middle-aged man to discover he is not even in
touch with his own feelings about himself. "I am convinced,"
he said, "that I had to go through this death experience in order
to become the new person I hope to be now." Out of every hopeless
experience can come new hope and new life if we are determined to make
it so. The key point is we must want to make good things happen when we
are suffering. Our will, exercised in the direction of God, produces
good results. The results produced are not always immediate, but they
are life-changing and long-lasting.
If these words have been a blessing, please forward them to a friend
These words were posted at one of Shepherd's Care Ministries Sites
called Wisdom Moment. This site is located at:
http://www.findthepower.com/wisdomminute
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