Receiving Our Challenges

Trusting God with all of our life means also to be able to trust the difficulties that come our way. Challenges and bitter sufferings can be gifts as well. To open to them is a profound act of humility. When the door slams and our hopes are dashed, when our health fails, a loved one dies, when the world closes in and the air we breathe is full of despair, it is hard to receive such experiences as gift.

Years after a dreadful difficulty or loss, many people will say that it was the difficulty that was somehow a profound turning point, a gift in disguise...

M E D I T A T I O N

We are not abandoned and alone
in suffering as much as we insist.
Could we sense that many others are suffering
the very same thing we are enduring?
Could we suffer with them and for them...

Taken from Simple ways by Gunilla Norris