Learning to accept & embrace suffering can be challenging for many of us. It can be tempting to want to escape..fret.. remain the victim.. to lose all hope, faith & positivity.

But suffering has a deeper purpose.. we just need to look beneath the surface.. which life is always calling us to do.

We endure hardships for a reason.. to learn, to be humbled, cleansed, karmically re-balanced, cracked open, re-born, re-moulded.. to be reminded of the limitations of our humanness so that we can embrace & surrender to a higher power more fully & be shown a way beyond our current capacity.

We are always learning from our mistakes. The wrong turns we may have taken… which can always be recovered with reflection & knowledge.

From this space we can choose to find the strength to transform, grow & evolve in consciousness. What a purpose!

Suffering can test our strength, resilience, patience, perseverance, faith, courage, emotional & psychospiritual capacity & our ability to remain in integrity.

These tests are blessings .. We may not be able to see them as such just yet.. the unseen

will always test our faith… this is a given.

How we choose to view our suffering impacts our wellbeing.

If we look at suffering negatively, we are only punishing ourselves.

Choosing to cling to our suffering, means choosing to cling to pain.. but what if we choose to surrender and let the pain go?

Do we see our pain as a punishment?

Or a blessing that we just might not (yet)understand?

The more we open our hearts & minds to look beneath the surface.. . the more that is revealed to us… & the more it all begins to make sense..