All along, I've said that we have to have faith that the right thing will happen. I truly believe that everything that happens in life, happens for a reason. Whether good or bad, what we're presented with comes to us for a reason. Maybe to make us stronger, possibly to help us to become more flexible in our minds and actions. And oftentimes, I think that we're presented with certain situations in order to help us to perceive the world from a perspective that we would not have been capable of beforehand.
The past few years have been the later for me. I've been presented with more life altering situations that I can recall, both of the positive and the negative. I've found myself feeling completely helpless and crushed; I've thrown my hands up in the air deciding that I no longer have the energy or the will to care. And I've had moments that all I could do is stare blankly- searching for any emotion at all.
Don't get me wrong, there have been many moments of greatness that have shown themselves to me, and this is where the moral of this entry lays:
If not for the bad, we would not have the good. More appropriately, If not for the bad, we would not be as appreciative of the good. You cannot have love without hate, light without dark, war without peace.
I'm thankful for the many experiences that I've lived through -both the good and the bad.
Right now as I sit here on my couch writing this entry, my heart is so full that I think at any moment it may burst and I am so grateful for this feeling. Most of all though, I find enormous gratitude in the opportunity to have traveled upon a road that has permitted me the full appreciation of this feeling in my heart.
Thank You to my faith. For if there is nothing else left to life, there is always the faith that we are on a path which will lead to a better place.
1 comment:
Sarah- I appreciate your comments about faith. Guy and I have had a huge test of our faith over the past couple of years. They say that fear is the opposite of faith and so we try each day not to fear what may come, but to have faith that it is part of a greater plan and is for our good. Last night my faith was based on the knowledge that whatever was supposed to happen in this election would happen. Hopefully people didn't base their faith specifically on their candidate winning, because if that was the case then almost half of the country's faith would be shattered this morning. Hope and faith are two different things. Our faith needs to endure even through the hard times, whereas it is easy to lose hope once in a while. We are definitely living in an interesting time.
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