Wednesday, April 13, 2011

There but for the grace of God…

How far you go in life depends on your being tender with the young, compassionate with the aged, sympathetic with the striving and tolerant of the weak and strong. Because someday in your life you will have been all of these. ~George Washington Carver
There but for the grace of God go I…or…there because of the grace of God must I go if I am to become all that I can be. There is so much power in us…yet, we don’t realize this until we are tested. How will we know the profound depth of our own strength if we are never knocked down? It is when we are down that we have the opportunity before us to find a way to get up. Once up, we are then presented with another opportunity, call it a choice. We can choose to be a victim or, we can look upon the scar and see that we are so much stronger for it. There must come a time when we look back on our pain and cherish it…honor the lesson presented for us to learn from if we so choose. It’s some scary shit…but, it is so needed. The light can’t know itself without venturing into the dark…

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