The things that almost broke you…
may become the things
that finally build you.
Endure what is uncomfortable
Accept what is visiting with you
Command the outcome
Nobody asks for hardship.
Nobody volunteers for disappointment.
Nobody wakes up hoping to suffer.
Yet…
many of life’s greatest treasures are born there.
WORTHY NOTE: Being forged in the furnace fire of life produces
a very sharp, distinct and attractive end result
THE OYSTER
A pearl begins because something unwanted enters the shell.
The irritation remains.
The response changes.
Instead of allowing the irritation to destroy it…
the oyster transforms it.
Perhaps that is wisdom.
WORTHY NOTE
Life cannot always choose what enters our lives.
We can always choose what leaves them.
THE INVITATION
Transform your disappointments.
Transform your failures.
Transform your criticism.
Transform your losses.
Allow them to polish you instead of poison you.
Work through all scenarios
They were presented to you for this purpose
PUT LEGS ON IT
Learn something.
Forgive someone.
Encourage another.
Read a good book.
Start again.
Turn today’s irritation into tomorrow’s wisdom.
WORTHY NOTE: A lump of coal takes an enormous beating under untold pressure and in the end, emerges as a diamond
What type of diamond remains to be seen as that is your part
RICHIE’S OBSERVATION
Looking back, I have thanked God for many things I once prayed would disappear.
Time revealed what my emotions could not.
THE DISCOVERY
A pearl is not evidence that life was easy.
It is evidence that pain was transformed.
Include the lump of coal now a diamond too
FINAL THOUGHT
Your greatest treasure may already be forming.
Never accept defeat or surrender. Live it out to the end
Don’t give up before it shines.
— Richie
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