When you are in the middle of a divorce it is easy to imagine a life without adversity. I remember going to sleep every night and praying that I wouldn’t have to get up in the morning because I just didn’t want to face another day. At times it seemed like more than I could bear. It consumed me, in every sense of the word. I was absolutely devastated and felt so helpless. My world was crashing down around me and there wasn’t a single thing I could do to stop it.
We are all faced with different trials in our lives. Times where we feel like the weight of the world is on our shoulders. There are days when we truly are consumed with sadness and grief at our circumstances. Every single one of us at one point in our lives has felt that way. We’ve all had to find a way to pick ourselves back up, to move on, to put one foot in front of the other. We find a way to keep going, no matter how steep the climb. But without the sorrow in your life, you would never know joy. You have to experience the lows, to appreciate the highs.
As a single parent, so often I feel that I am in the middle of a raging storm. Some days I just close my eyes and wish it would all go away. But the reality of it is that it is here, and I have to get through it because I have a little boy who is depending on me to make it through for him. Trials keep pouring down day in and day out, that is part of life. But the important thing is that we learn to face these trials with courage, for without the rain, we would never see the rainbow at the end of the storm.