LIFE IS A TEST ... EMBRACE IT

Ever wonder why there is pain and suffering? I certainly did, for many years. 

Then one day while reflecting on why some people crumble over the smallest crisis like a fender-bender and other people can face disaster with quiet fortitude, I realized that it came down to how much struggle that person has chosen to face in their life.

Struggle is the where the crucible of your character is formed.

Everyone faces pain and suffering at some point in their life.

It is how you choose to respond to it that defines who you are.

God grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, Courage to change the things I can, Wisdom to know the difference. "Reinhold Niebuhr"

Bad things do happen; how I respond to them defines my character and the quality of my life. I can choose to sit in perpetual sadness, immobilized by the gravity of my loss, or I can choose to rise from the pain and treasure the most precious gift I have - life itself. "Walter Anderson"