Your Strength of Spirit

Life can knock you down, people can let you down. When you feel you can not go on and yet you do anyway, that is your strength of spirit. It's a sad fact of life that bad things happen to good people and there is indeed a larger plan in store and you must use your strength of spirit to find it.

If someone has a profoundly disabled child, they at first be very angry and wonder what they or their family has done to deserve this situation. As they care for their child and meet his or her special needs they will find they are drawn to people and other situations such as Special Olympics, they would have never discovered otherwise. Some parents have become powerful figures for getting legislation passed to benefit other children with the same disabilities as their own child. This again is strength of spirit.

A woman who is an abusive or otherwise unhealthy relationship may wonder what she has done to deserve this fate. She will find in hindsight, she did nothing and did not deserve the treatment. Many women who have come out of these relationship find they are stronger and able to use their experiences to help others resolve and find the strength to get out of similar situations.

When something unfortunate happens, try to step out of your anger and grief and see the bigger picture, what is the lesson here that you're being asked to learn? It will make your healing must faster and your spirit stronger.
 posted by Friends of Leah