Refuse to Fall down and Stay Down

WORD FOR THE DAY

Friday, Apr. 12

Refuse to fall down. If you cannot refuse to fall down, refuse to stay down. If you cannot refuse to stay down, lift your heart toward heaven, and like a hungry beggar, ask that it be filled, and it will be filled. You may be pushed down. You may be kept from rising. But no one can keep you from lifting your heart toward heaven.

Dr. Clarissa Pinkola Estés

 

Amy Carmichael wrote: "Sometimes things seem to happen contrariwise, on purpose. We are prepared for the usual trials of life, but these are not usual. They are things that come "out of course," and they are the most difficult of all to meet peacefully, and to pass through peacefully. They are most upsetting things, as we sometimes call them, and they often continue to try to upset us.

"It is very humbling to go through the list of ordinary things, as apparently they were regarded by the first missionaries, labors, prisons, stripes, stonings, shipwrecks, perils, travails, and then stop and consider these added words, "beside the things that come out of course." What were they? We do not know, but, judging by the things which were not counted as "out of course," they must have been a good deal harder than anything that comes our way.

Is there anything that you do not like and did not expect in your today? If so, perhaps these words will help you to meet it with serenity."

 

 

I go back and read this again and again. One friend recently commented their pain was nothing compared to my struggle. Yet, each one of us has struggles and hardships that no one else can truly imagine as to what depth they affect us. I learned long ago that you may see a person as such and so, but you will never know the difficulties that shaped that person and brought them to what you perceive today.

 

The saying is true that you should not judge another until you have walked several miles in their shoes.

 

 

 

 

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