Difficulties and Opportunities

From baby to a teenage, from a youth to an adult, from adult to midlife and from midlife to retirement, each stage of life has its own challenges and opportunities.

We humans, by the nature, have need for security, for stabilities for belonging and for satisfaction besides of basic physical and emotional needs. We are venerable to external changes and internal struggles.

Full time mother certainly is not exception. Even with you best mind and effort, the difficulties will flow into your life. The difficult may crash your present world; but also it may create the total new opportunity and resources. Just like the economic crisis may lead to any social and political revolution, the new relation of production and new mode of production will re-established. Two year ago, the worst ever hurricane Catherine hit Louisianan in USA, there was devastating situation without any business hope, two year later, today, Louisianan is the land of with flourish business opportunities.

That however does not suggest that we should not express our feelings. The in born mechanism of our human kinds has allowed us to feel, to response in both negative and positive ways. It is natural that you feel depress and stress when things turn bad, when it seems lost of hope, when all your “friends” turning against you, when the person you held in high regards falls in common worldly snare…

So, if we can’t skip difficulty, we might as well to face it. What matters most is your attitude and how you view difficult in your life. If you choose not to focus on the difficulties, with faith that “All things work together for good to them that love God, to them who are the called according to his purpose.” Rom 8:28, and God will bring all things well, with patience and preservation, you will be able to go through the difficult times and not being crushed.

It requires some emotional effort when you are facing difficulties; you need to pluck up your courage to go through these. It may take time to, but you will be stronger, calmer, and deeper in character. In the end, your experience will be rich and full, your life will be more fulfilling. Embrace every difficult and discover every lifetime opportunity.