Hardship often prepares an ordinary person for an extraordinary destiny

Hardship often prepares an ordinary person for an extraordinary destiny

Hardship often prepares an ordinary person for an extraordinary destiny
In February 2017, I had a powerful revelation about my past.
I wrote this blog for my church’s website in April 2017 as a reflection of that enlightening period of time.
In my experience, I have known that far more often than not, people strongly resent circumstances viewed or judged with a ‘black and white’ lens.
Many times we will declare how we wish we could replay the past, do something better, re-do a moment in time so that things would be much improved now. In western society, one institution revealed by media to be on the path to destruction is the all-important marriage commitment.
I wrote this poem in 2017. It was a reflection of what I’d learnt following an intensive nine-month group programme of the deepest level of introspection.
Don’t let your happiness depend on something you may lose
Keep your heart pure for out of it are the important things of life.