HOW DO YOU PUSH THROUGH THE HARD TIMES?

"Nothing is really bad. It is either a good moment or a good lesson." 

I love this quote because I believe it is true. BUT it is so hard to grasp it when you are going through the lesson learning time. Life is about opposites and we apparently don't grow very much when it is all sunshine and moonbeams. Strength of character is when you push through the hard times and don't give up on yourself ever. The bigger the lesson the harder the time you go through, if this is the case then I am to assume that I am going to die an enlightened master. So best I be thankful and wear my pain and frustration well.

This is all well and good to say, but it feels like hell when you are living it, and it is in the living it where we need to understand it and make sense of it. Being human is no easy thing, it is about learning to enjoy the agony and the ecstasy. Yup, the agony to. We are not all created the same and we all have different lives and different interpretations of the experiences we live. I for one am a person who wants to learn and grow and be the best I can be, so life dishes me what I need to experience in order to learn and grow. If I don't learn then life keeps handing out the lesson until I get it, this is the pattern of my life so far. When I get through to the other side of a shit storm I have wonderful aha moments and the heavens open up with a choir of angels singing for my moment of enlightenment. So by thinking and knowing that, it gets me through to the other side in one piece, if I can remember to think it!

The lessons I am being thrown at the moment is that life is busy and things get in the way of my plans all the time and I have to learn to roll with it and not give up. I thought that I was going to be married for ever, that changed, I have had to learn to roll with it. I certainly didn't think that I would be homeschooling my three youngest kids, but now I am, and I am learning to roll with it. All of my time and focus has moved to the most important job in the world, educating my kids. My measure of success has had to change from one day to the next, and I have to learn to be ok with that. My focus has been forced to shift based on the needs of this specific moment, it is when I fight it that I suffer. Is all my suffering based on the non acceptance of what is? It seems to me that it is. I become a victim to circumstance the second I don't want what I am living. Don't get me wrong, I am not saying that I don't want to be teaching my kids, what I am saying is that I had another plan for myself and this new plan has just flung itself at me and I have to adapt to it.That is when I struggle with my reality,its the adapting part. Now that is a good reminder to push me through to the light at the end of the tunnel, stop fighting what is and accept it!

How do you help yourself push through the hard times and challenges that life throws at you? I would love to hear from you or help you if you have something that you are stuck with.

With so much love
Rosemarie
xxx