One friend told me “It’s your fault that this tragedy happened. God knows how strong you are so He gave you heavier crosses to carry. I am sure this will not happen to me because God knows how weak I am. I cannot possibly live without my husband. He’s practically the one running the business and our household. I would be helpless without him by my side. I would probably just fade away and die.”
I answered her: “You are far more stronger than you think. You only think you’re weak but when problems like these happen to you, you will be surprised to find out just how strong you are. God has given us the freedom and the will to decide what to do with our lives. When we are pushed beyond our limits, we will discover that there’s really nothing that we couldn’t handle. God has endowed us with built-in mechanisms that would drive us to endure whatever comes our way and the capacity to get out of whatever pit we are in.”
We are always reminded that we should only think of happy thoughts because whatever the mind conceives, happens. POWER OF THE MIND. So that means we should not dwell on things we don’t want to happen in our lives. We need to focus ourselves on positive thoughts and discard the negative ones to prevent mishaps and misfortunes from happening. Theoretically simple but actually hard to follow.
Years later, my friend faced the greatest challenge she feared the most. She and her husband inevitably went their own separate ways. Most people believe tragedies come in bunch and strike when you least expect them. My friend lost her daughter to leukemia after that. Contrary to what she perceived herself to be, she withstood everything and came out even stronger. She survived the two greatest tragedies that could possibly beset a human being in this lifetime. This same woman who thought that she won’t last a day without her husband is now living her life to the fullest.
Problems will never cease to exist. Some will take longer to be solved and some will be so heavy that it would seem impossible to carry. It is so easy to lose hope when nothing seems to go our way. Some people even choose to end their lives to end it all. They couldn’t see a bright future ahead of them. But for those who realize that nothing lasts forever, they hold on to their faith that things will be better. They wake up each morning hoping that today will be better than yesterday. AND THEY MAKE IT HAPPEN.
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