Facing Adversity Head On!

We think we're one type of person. Until . . .

*Someone makes us angry.

*Does something we don't like.

*Run into problems.

*Things don't work out the way we expect them to.

Then who do we become? A stranger even to ourselves. We close our hearts. We withdraw. We yell. We complain.

Adversity has a way of bringing us out, of confronting us—the us that hides in there when everything is peachy keen.

Adversity is what tempts us to come out and reveal that hidden part of ourselves. The self that shies away from people for fear of looking bad.

But adversity can also make us stronger, if we let it. If we don't close our hearts, withdraw, yell, and complain. We don't have to do that.

We can open our hearts and face whatever is there. Let's allow adversity to teach us, to stretch us, to make us better.

Next time adversity pays a visit, ask, "What do you want me to learn from this? How can I become stronger? More loving, kinder?

Once you do, adversity will have nothing over you.