Life Lessons

If you’ve been alive for more than, say a couple of years, you’ve no doubt experienced some pain, sadness, and disappointment. Those things are unavoidable in this life. They are not, as they say, optional. Painful circumstances are never our choice. But what we do with them is.

There is always the opportunity to grow and learn in every difficult circumstance, or hard place where we find ourselves. You can’t ignore or deny hurt and pain, and no one thinks you should. But you can choose to first find, and then focus, on the lesson the hurt has brought you to. We have heard it said “God never wastes our pain.” If we look for the lesson, we believe we can grow. We can emerge from painful places wiser and stronger. And what’s more, we can heal in process.