A Note for People in Pain

We all have hard seasons.

Stages where the ground on which we stand seems to crumble, nothing seems to be in our favor and the winter seems endless.

To know pain, to endure suffering and to feel as though the trial will never end is to be fully human. And to become most intimate with life itself.

Our pain, in truth, becomes a purifier. Difficulty softens us, unmasks us and opens us—allowing the gifts of wisdom, humility and patience to become our new way of being.

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One of my favorite books is The Prophet by Khalil Gibran. And if you're going through a hard time right now, I'd encourage you to read that book and I'd encourage you to read the two chapters. One is on sorrow and one is on pain. And in one of those chapters, he says, you know, difficult times come to you to crack the shell that covers your understanding. You see, it's only your ego, which is your weak self, your weak side, that is judging this difficult time. as quote unquote bad. The deeper, higher, wiser part of you that is being cracked open by this seeming tragedy or painful time knows this is a great time. This is the best, worst time you've ever had. And so what I'm suggesting to you is difficult times do come. There's a natural order to life. There's natural seasons. I think a lot of life, there's this symphony and orchestrated brilliance to life. Because as you go through this difficult time right now, I promise you, there will be a time, it could be a week from now, could be two years from now, where you look back at this and say, wow, that really was the best, worst time I've ever had. And I see why it happened to me, becauseI needed to learn this lesson, and it made me who I now am. I couldn't have written the books thatI've written. I couldn't be here with you now speaking. from a place of truth and sharing and service to you? If I hadn't gone through my difficult times, because those times have sculpted me and made me who I now am. Am I perfect? Far from it. Am I happy with who I am right now with all my flaws and scars? Absolutely. So I'd say to you, wear your scars proudly and turn your wounds into wisdom and use your stumbling blocks and make them into stepping stones because that is the game the legends play.