When I lost my dad, it was the worst thing yet to happen in my life.  I went through months of grieving, anger being the strongest emotional reaction to the feeling of loss I had.  I spent many hours dealing with healing, and in that time, I had to learn again why I believed what I believed, as for a while, I couldn't believe in anything!

The hardest period of my life was living without believing, feeling so much pain and anger with God for taking my dad away, that I had trouble releasing that...
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The best part of life is having choices whereby we can make the most of our dreams.  The worst part of life is having so many choices whereby we can become lost in all the confusing options we encounter trying to make our dreams come to fruition!  I don't know how we get into stages of life with virtually no sense direction, but we do sometimes.  We can honestly be so overwhelmed with our own freedom, so frightened by the sense of absolute emptiness in our life, that the very knowledge of reb...
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Life is not easy . . we reach stages in our lives when things happen which we simply do not understand, nor have answers for, which test our self-confidence or take hostage our self-esteem.  We feel challenged and pinned up against a wall, immovable and often incapable of progress.  When in these states, we often feel completely out of control, unworthy and stressed to a high level.  It might be a personal problem with a close associate or loved one; it might be from health issues we seemingl...
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The trouble with me is that I can intend to not let my emotions get the best of me, but just when I am resolved to be determined to not let that happen, that is when they get to me the most!  Our mountains, those challenges which we face, are there to strengthen us, but in that process, they can take us down.  We might be stronger ultimately, but in the process of building our strength, of learning our lessons, in shaping our beings internally, we might just fall, flounder, and err.  We might...

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Right now in my life, I'm like an unfinished masterpiece.  I was reminded today when looking at the infant niece of a friend, who is ill and facing heart surgery, that life's brevity is enough inspiration to constantly let yourself be shaped and formed!  I whine too much.  I moan and complain over such silly things.  I know nothing of pain, nor enduring it, in comparison to that of a tiny little 2-month old baby fighting for hers!

When God gives you challenges, it should automatically make you...
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