What a strange title for a blog, huh? Well, think about your life for a second. Think of some of the times when you thought life as you knew it was over. Well, you did survive didn’t you? What did you learn from that experience? Most people I’ve talked to and had the privilege to get to know their true story, have told me that without that crisis in their life, they wouldn’t be where they are now.
I’ve heard interviews of regular people that have encountered life changing tragedies that they wouldn’t go back and change if they could turn the clock back. One guy had to cut off his own arm to escape death. He gained so much more from that event, that he is grateful to have had it to begin with! That seems unbelievable doesn’t it? Other people have had horrific heartbreaks in relationships and one would think they would say, ‘if only I’d never met him/her I would have never had to go through this pain’….but in reality, they learned valuable knowledge through the pain, or discovered remarkable things about themselves that they might not have without those experiences. One woman told me that she could have never truly appreciated her healthy marriage without first having the very unhealthy prior relationship.
The pain we have to walk through seems unbearable at times, but we have to remember that we do more growing in those times. We have to welcome the lessons that life has to offer and accept that it’s not always an easy path. But the rewards on the other side can be incredible!! Good things DO come from bad situations. If we had the crystal ball, we might not be so afraid to take on the pain. Tell me about an experience that you have come to be grateful for despite the pain at the time. I want to hear from YOU!!!!!