life-s-lessons

Define your path and travel on this path.

We live that we might have experience; that through it we might gain wisdom, compassion, faith, and inner strength.

For things I am not thankful for__xperiences I would never volunteer to relive__ recognize how they have changed me. My depth of compassion and humility, the sincerity of my empathy and understanding, and the duration of my patience have all been refined by bitter suffering. I thank God for the lessons learned. I am a better person for it, but I still abhor those awful trials.

Little Joe was still behind him. Eli could feel it. He wanted to look back, but he couldn__. The tears were too close. If he were Fancy, he__ turn around and kick and buck and moo and do just about anything to keep his calf near. But Eli wasn__ Fancy; he was a farmer.

When you have acceptance of who you are there is no need to discuss your past.