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Today's
Meditation:
"Turn
to yourself and inquire what power you have."
Those are extremely strong words, and great advice for all
of us in many situations. So many of us are willing
to give up in certain circumstances without ever trying to
dig inside and find out just what we have that will help
us to work our ways through them. We do have great
powers inside of ourselves, but they often lay dormant for
years-- or forever-- because we never try to tap into
them. Adversity can be a wonderful catalyst for
getting us to find out some of the amazing powers that are
inside us.
That
doesn't mean at all that we always have to do things
alone. Asking for help is a completely legitimate
strategy for dealing with many of the things that life
throws our way, and when we do so it's beneficial usually
for both us and the people helping us. We weren't
put on this planet alone, and it doesn't make sense to try
to make our ways through everything on our own. But
when adversity strikes, sometimes the best strategy we can
employ is to try to find out what we can do on our own,
what kinds of ways we can use our strengths to deal with
the adversity.
We
spend much of our lives trying to avoid adversity, but
really, when we do so we're letting our fears dictate our
lives and our actions. We all have some of that fear
that when adversity strikes it will overcome us, and that
we won't be able to deal with it. Adversity is scary
that way. But the truth is that we're almost always
able to make it through, and when we do we're stronger for
the experience and wiser for what we've learned from it--
or in spite of it.
While
I don't know that I'd actually call adversity a
"friend," per se, I do know that it has helped
me an awful lot to learn and grow as it's come into my
life in many different forms. When adversity does
rear its head and say "I'm here," perhaps it's
better that we respond, "And what lessons do you
bring to me?" rather than, "Oh, no-- stay
away!"
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