Blessings for those who celebrate Passover and Good Friday today!
Gratitude .. for the challenges in my life.
Who gives thanks for pain, for disappointments, for loss, for heartbreak, for illness, for suffering?
In St. Paul's 1 Thess. 5:17, he writes, "In everything, give thanks."
What I do know is that in time, we can see the hand of the Divine in all things, all our life experiences. We are always Divinely guided and Divinely protected...even when we may not feel like we are.
When I am able to feel, to surrender, to trust, to become the Observer, I have found truth and the Divine.
But it's a journey and it doesn't come all at once. I've had to learn to be gentle with myself, to take it one day at a time, to know that it's okay to be angry with God, to be disappointed, to question, to struggle with unbelief, to just be wherever I'm at...it's all part of the journey.
Today's reminder from Al-Anon's "Courage to Change", daily reflection for May 18...
The Chinese word for crisis is written with two brush strokes. The first stands for danger, and the second for opportunity. I will look for the good hidden within everything I encounter.
"There is no such thing as a problem without a gift for you in its hands." - Richard Bach"
"In everything, give thanks." 1Thess.5:17
May you find the blessings in your challenges. Be gentle with yourself.