Greetings Riktare,
I'm not sure advice is the best thing here. I can only share with you how I've dealt with my share of severe misfortunes, painful disappointments and disabling adversity. Looking at the big picture, I'm eternally grateful for all of it. When in the midst of the storm, I learned to also be thankful for it. It's the only way to open the door to God's help, Adjuster guidance. Being grateful, even for pain and suffering, is a gateway to the soul's recuperative powers.
I didn't realize this until finding the Papers. It was in reading that we are supposed to enthuse over apparent defeat that a lightbulb went on in my head. My brain said, "that's crazy," but my soul lit up with hope because I realized that it is the key to happiness. Soon every challenge became a way to make progress; decisions made during these times are often circle making decisions.
To enthuse over apparent defeat forces you out of the material level of thinking and into the soul level of thinking where everything is possible in partnership with God. This is the sole purpose of our existence here on earth, to move from the material to the spiritual, by way of the monotia soul. It's supposed to be difficult, thwarting, frustrating and disappointing; they don't call it survival for nothing. Think of it this way, if this life was a bed of roses, who in their right mind would seek heaven, perfection? God made life difficult for a reason, so we would strive for better. Isolating ourselves from it is not the answer. Embracing it is!
So for me, I wake up every morning and thank God for another day on earth. I thank him for my arthritis, and grumbling stomach, and for all the crazy mixed up people I read about in the morning paper. I thank him for my mundane chores; for my home and food; for my family and friends. I thank him for another day to search for truth, beauty and goodness, and for another day to make decisions that have a chance to resonate in the Supreme . . . I can only hope for that. What a blessing to be able to live and struggle to contribute to God's will on earth! Happiness comes from being grateful for the opportunity to strive, and that's the secret I wish everyone knew. Striving is hard but rewarding in that it gives you the soul peace that your brain simply cannot understand. Forget about understanding it. Embrace the struggle.
That, then, is the primary or elementary course which confronts the faith-tested and much-traveled pilgrims of space. But long before reaching Havona, these ascendant children of time have learned to feast upon uncertainty, to fatten upon disappointment, to enthuse over apparent defeat, to invigorate in the presence of difficulties, to exhibit indomitable courage in the face of immensity, and to exercise unconquerable faith when confronted with the challenge of the inexplicable. Long since, the battle cry of these pilgrims became: "In liaison with God, nothing — absolutely nothing — is impossible." 26:5:3
In Friendship, Rexford
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