STRUGGLE

For the most part, our struggles come from our own making.  So why are we making ourselves struggle?  It could be that we have lessons to learn.  Perhaps we are meant to be leaders and our learning is to figure our way through bad times.  Perhaps we are meant to be great but we need to first overcome our weaknesses.  Perhaps we are meant to be great healers but need to first mend our own broken selves.

The irony, I believe, is this great truth -- the more afflicted we are, the more we grow and that this growth, is the only pathway to realizing our greatest, most authentic selves.  It’s also the only way we’re going to be any good to anyone else.