Problems bring lessons? sh**.....

James Allen once wrote...."

As a progressive and evolving being, man is where he is that he may learn that he may grow; and as he learns the spiritual lesson which any circumstance contains for him, it passes away and gives place to other circumstances."

It has taken me a long time to be able to look at a problem I'm having as a necessary spiritual lesson. To be frank, I'm still not always really excited to be enduring the pain and frustration that negative circumstances usually cause. Some days I'd like to "play hookey" and skip the lesson. :-)

But as I look back at my life, it is easy to see that the times when my wisdom and understanding grew to new levels; those times when I approached becoming the person I long to be, were always after some pretty rough times.

The greatest growth you're going to have is going to come from the negative circumstance you have today that sometimes seems too overwhelming or too big to scale.

In the Byways of Blessedness by James Allen he suggests that there we should embrace our circumstances. "Let a person rejoice when he is confronted with obstacles, for it means that he has reached the end of some particular line of indifference or folly, and is now called upon to summon up all his energy and intelligence in order to extricate himself, and to find a better way; that the powers within him are crying out for greater freedom, for enlarged exercise and scope."

Easy for him to write.... really hard to do. But what I have found is that no situation can be difficult of itself; more that it is the lack of insight into its intricacies, and the want of wisdom in dealing with it, which give rise to the difficulty.

Maybe that explains why it sometimes seems that I can't shake a particular problem, or I have one that keeps rearing its ugly head. Perhaps instead of fighting it, we need to jump in and gain the insight and wisdom to handle it. Then it would be gone, and we would be ready for the next lesson -- only stronger, both in spirit and in wisdom!

Well if nothing else it might be worth thinking about.

Til next time....