This Journey

Sometimes we fail to understand the reasons for our hardships and the lessons we learned in the school of hard knocks.  We wonder why certain things happened to us and why we had to endure some of the pain we encountered on our journey.  The fact is that every single thing that has happened to us, both good and bad, to this point has allowed us to prepare for this moment in our lives.  Without these lessons, hardships, joys and sorrows we could not have been prepared to embrace what is happening at this very moment.  It is what gives us grace, wisdom, endurance, resilience.  These experiences have taught us how to love ourselves as much as we have learned to love others and let them love us.  We have learned that failures are only stepping stones to the next level and so we no longer fear failures.  We know that it matters less what others wish for us to be and instead we go after what we want because we know through our experiences what works for us and what doesn’t.  We had to experience life’s important lessons to understand and move ahead with the great plan for our lives, with confidence, joy and a sense of who we really are.