[Ponder]

I came across this in my studies and felt to share it. What do you think? Is it pertinant to our situations here?

"No pain that we suffer, no trial that we experience, is wasted. It ministers to our education, to the development of such qualities as patience faith, fortitude, and humility. All that we suffer and all that we endure, especially if we endure it patiently, builds up our characters, purifies our hearts, expands our souls, and makes us more tender and charitable...and it is through sorrow and suffering, toil and tribulation, that we gain the education that we came here to acquire"

O.F. Whitney

Any thoughts?

[CANDC]

Ponder, there is so much that my life affirms of what is being said. I searched for some other quotes in a similar vein.

Every happiness is the child of a separation it did not think it could survive.
—Rainer Maria Rilke

Someone I loved once gave me a box full of darkness. It took me years
to understand that this too, was a gift. —Mary Oliver

The highest, most decisive experience is to be alone with one’s own self. You must be alone to find out what supports you, when you find that you can not support yourself. Only this experience can give you an indestructible foundation. —C.G. Jung

“The wound is the place where the Light enters you.”
― Rumi

“The minute I heard my first love story,
I started looking for you, not knowing
how blind that was.
Lovers don't finally meet somewhere.
They're in each other all along.”
― Rumi, The Illuminated Rumi

“Don’t grieve. Anything you lose comes round in another form.”
― Rumi

[Ponder]

Those are beautiful!

[(JD)]

I think it's a choice. Not all who suffer ever come to a point where they can find value in anything about it or the journey.

[Teddy Bear]

That which doesn't kill you makes you stronger. I believe that this is correct. I think we are hear to learn and grow no matter how the phrases are worded.

[Fuzzybear]

[(JD)]

All things work together for good to them that love God.

It doesn't mean all things are good... but they can work for our good, a better us, a better life, a better outcome depending upon how we respond.

I've always said that it isn't WHAT we go through...but HOW we go through that makes the difference.

[AutumnEmbers]

Everything is a learning experience... sometimes I just don't want to know what life is trying to teach me, or it takes me a while to listen.

Great quotes, everyone