I seem to find myself having to make the best out of a bad situation more often than I care to. It always feels like just when I think I can cruise on down my path for a little while without any bumps and bruises, there goes another obstacle in my way and often times it feels like it’s a mountain just sitting there, knowing that I cannot move mountains out of my way. I’m simply not that strong. At least that’s what I convince myself at the time when I am staring down the very thing that is causing me to stop dead in my tracks.
I guess the truth is that I sometimes don’t know my own strength and that the strength that I need is not necessarily physical but rather spiritual and it comes from God. I have realized throughout the years (and have been reminded whenever I forget by Ms. L.) that I am so much stronger than I think I am and that each time I make it through a struggle I am always, somehow, better off for it. I suppose those that have never struggled through anything cannot fully appreciate the things that they are fortunate enough to ascertain in this life.
Nothing that you want, that is worth having, is ever going to come to you easily and if it does you better believe that there is some kind of string attached to it, visible or not. I’m in a bad spot right not, it’s certainly not a spot I want to be in, but I can already see the lesson brewing out of it. I guess the real failure in failing at anything is not learning from that failure and not fully capturing the lessons that there are to be built upon and shared. Times are hard right now, but they could be so much worse, and when they get better I know how to avoid a repeat. Trouble doesn’t last always and this too shall pass. Stay blessed and be grateful!
Jimmetta Carpenter
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