Do not be afraid to suffer.... it is from being shaken apart and not being destroyed that one becomes strong and courageous. Laura Lewis Lanier
We shrink from suffering and with good reason, it's painful! But suffering is the way our character gets built the best. Suffering comes in all sorts of forms and what is suffering for me may not be for you. The point is to allow it to weed out what isn't strength and courage in our characters and let true strength and courage be birthed in us.
A few years ago I went through a suffering. Not physical but emotional. Someone I trusted deeply betrayed me beyond the scope of my imagination. (It wasn't Lanny! Quit speculating - haha!) This betrayal sent me into a tailspin. Lanny and I were floored, we didn't know what to do or how to go about recovering me from this betrayal. You could say it shook me apart. I was laid wide open and all of my fears and insecurities were exposed. That time of suffering was used in my life to purge those things from me and in its place was birthed strength and courage. I became who I was really created to be. The person who betrayed me came to regret that I think because I fought back in the ways I knew were appropriate and I should. (Yes, you can stand up for truth and you should when compelled. But that's a whole different blog. *grin*)
Before that time of suffering I would shrink back from it, fight against it, let it be known I wasn't a welcoming environment for suffering. But since then, when it happened and I couldn't control it nor run from it, I "welcome" suffering. I know what the outcome will be if I allow it to have its way. It will shake me apart and expose what isn't really part of me and in the place of those false characteristics will arise what is supposed to be part of me - strength and courage.
We shrink from suffering and with good reason, it's painful! But suffering is the way our character gets built the best. Suffering comes in all sorts of forms and what is suffering for me may not be for you. The point is to allow it to weed out what isn't strength and courage in our characters and let true strength and courage be birthed in us.
A few years ago I went through a suffering. Not physical but emotional. Someone I trusted deeply betrayed me beyond the scope of my imagination. (It wasn't Lanny! Quit speculating - haha!) This betrayal sent me into a tailspin. Lanny and I were floored, we didn't know what to do or how to go about recovering me from this betrayal. You could say it shook me apart. I was laid wide open and all of my fears and insecurities were exposed. That time of suffering was used in my life to purge those things from me and in its place was birthed strength and courage. I became who I was really created to be. The person who betrayed me came to regret that I think because I fought back in the ways I knew were appropriate and I should. (Yes, you can stand up for truth and you should when compelled. But that's a whole different blog. *grin*)
Before that time of suffering I would shrink back from it, fight against it, let it be known I wasn't a welcoming environment for suffering. But since then, when it happened and I couldn't control it nor run from it, I "welcome" suffering. I know what the outcome will be if I allow it to have its way. It will shake me apart and expose what isn't really part of me and in the place of those false characteristics will arise what is supposed to be part of me - strength and courage.
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