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” Deep in the heart of every person lies a sorry the world knows nothing about”
Everyone struggles from time to time!
One of the things that I hear from clients over and over again is that they think that everyone else has their life all together. They look at other people at church or at work and compare themselves with them. Usually such comparison leads to discouragement and doubt. Why can’t they be as good as this person or that person? Or this family seems so perfect etc. etc.
This week make the effort to not compare yourself to others but to respect each human being and understand that no matter how they appear on the outside you can bet there are skeletons in the closet. Everyone has known struggle and suffering!
We are all in the boat called life together and there is no one who is immune from problems and challenges. When we really get this then it is wise to simply have compassion on others. To love them, to have a positive attitude around them, to lift them up because you understand struggle yourself, to be slow to judge and even slower to criticize.
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“For a long time it had seemed to me that life was about to begin – real life. But there was always some obstacle in the way. Something to be got through first, some unfinished business, time still to be served, a debt to be paid. Then life would begin. At last it dawned on me that these obstacles were my life.” -Fr. Alfred D’Souza
Without obstacles to overcome what meaning could life possibly have? It is through the personal struggle with weaknesses that one can be made strong. Keep applying the information to your life you are learning and you’ll get better one day at a time. Pick yourself up and keep trying!
In the treatment system, we use the analogy of the butterfly that is coming out of the cocoon. A little boy discovers the butterfly and sees it struggling, he decides to help it out. The little butterfly takes flight but only to fall to the ground a few minutes later.
The boy was sad and asked is Grandpa, “Why did it die?”
The grandfather replied, with love in his heart, “That butterfly needed to strengthen its self and prepare for the days ahead. When you removed its struggle, it did not receive the strength it needed.”
Just like this butterfly, we all have struggles but these struggles make us ready for the days ahead. Keep going, you can do it.
