Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves.
~~ Carl Jung
“Every time I thought I was being rejected from something good, I was actually being re-directed to something better.”
~Steve Maraboli
“I was at a store last night and there was a mother and her two children behind me in a LONG line. One child was older, the second a toddler. The older one had a pack of glow sticks and the toddler was screaming for them, so the mom opened the pack and gave him one, which stopped his tears. He walked around with it, smiling, until the older boy took it. The toddler started screaming again. Just as the mom was about to fuss at the older child, he bent the glow stick and handed it back to the toddler. The toddler noticed that the stick was now glowing and his brother said “I had to break it so that you could get the full effect from it.” I almost ran because l could hear God saying to me, “I had to break you to show you why I created you. You had to go through it so that you could fulfill your purpose.” That little toddler was so happy just swinging that “broken” glow stick around in the air, not understanding that it was created to “glow”, but had to be “broken” before it’s glow light could truly shine.
There are some people that God knows will be content just “being”. There are also those of us that have to be “broken”. We have to experience the pain, the hurt. We have to get sick. We have to lose a job. We have to go through divorce. We have to bury our spouse, parents, best friend, or child, because, in those moments of desperation and after the breaking is done, only then are we able to see the reason for which we were created. Only then are we able to truly let our light shine…”