“We acquire the strength we have overcome. ” ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
photo by You Are So Beautiful Photography
A few years ago, I was a personal witness to the most unexpected and surprising bouts with grief I ever experienced. At the time, it hurt like hell. Not that I know what “hell” feels like, but I felt as if I had come close. I was immobilized.
Yet the lesson I learned, was phenomenal. any lesson I learn today, comes with a great sacrifice, yet ALWAYS brings me a very beautiful outcome. I am not my sorrow. I got this beautiful revelation weeks ago, went I endured something else I just didn’t understand. I believed there was a message coming to me through my pain I was experiencing. The pain was not soley emotional. it was also physical. It seemed as if the pain came as a result of my reluctance to go places I had always dreamed of going, yet I was fearful of the success. Once I acquiesced to the fear, and no longer allowed it to control my emotions, I was free to experience something new, and even something I welcomed.
So, I don’t consider my sorrows to be as devastating anymore, because I feel as if they are purposed.
I learned that when God has dreams for you to fulfill, He’s merciful enough to make sure you taste them, but then, to show you that He has so much more. And no matter how devastating it may feel at the time, He always knows there is a brighter tomorrow.
Today, I am a new person because of that experience.
And tomorrow, i will be even stronger.
This picture depicts where my soul was in that deep sorrow.
“When your fear touches someone’s pain, it becomes pity, when your love touches someone’s pain, it becomes compassion.”
― Stephen Levine
