I came across this line a few years back, when I was still in college. But the truth in this statement will be forever etched in my heart.
For the most important, most crucial struggles that we encounter in our lives, those that define the person that we eventually become, are those that happen within us. Our bouts against depression and our fears, against despair and hopelessness, with choosing between what’s easy and what’s right, between loving in spite of the pain and denying ourselves the chance to feel the kind of love that makes any amount of pain bearable.
While it is true that each life has at least one turning point, the events that we cite as turning points are only catalysts. They are only made important by how we deal with them, and how we deal with things is determined wholly by how and what we are inside.
Trust me, I should know. I have been waging a war for quite some time now. And while what I'm going through right now has weakened me from time to time, I will never lose hope. For I know that someday, somehow, these things will come to pass, and I will emerge a much better and stronger person, guided by Him to whom everything is possible.
For the most important, most crucial struggles that we encounter in our lives, those that define the person that we eventually become, are those that happen within us. Our bouts against depression and our fears, against despair and hopelessness, with choosing between what’s easy and what’s right, between loving in spite of the pain and denying ourselves the chance to feel the kind of love that makes any amount of pain bearable.
While it is true that each life has at least one turning point, the events that we cite as turning points are only catalysts. They are only made important by how we deal with them, and how we deal with things is determined wholly by how and what we are inside.
Trust me, I should know. I have been waging a war for quite some time now. And while what I'm going through right now has weakened me from time to time, I will never lose hope. For I know that someday, somehow, these things will come to pass, and I will emerge a much better and stronger person, guided by Him to whom everything is possible.
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