Adversity

(Adversity)

I have, like so many others, gone through some very difficult times (more than once). While my posts, the research and work that I am putting into them, is truly helping with all the things that come with ADVERSITY, I thought that I would share with you some of my thoughts. I tend to do exactly what I have done with my blog, not dwell or "talk" about the problems that are going on in and around my life. As I've stated before I withdrawal, take care of the ones that are in my care, and reconsider where I am in my life and what if any needs to be adjusted. I have been doing a lot of the adjusting lately, hoping that it will not only help me but my family. One of the major adjustments has been our focus on Christ in our lives, family and home, another is the focus of our family first and the rest afterwards. We have a daily morning and evening family meeting, we have family night once a week, we have family game night once a week, and family movie night once a week. I hope that with some of these adjustments and focuses as well as others and with God's and Christ's assistance we will all be stronger for the effort we are putting in now. Strength will help us all through the adversities in life that we no doubt will all have. These are just some of the strength words that give meaning to the ones that endure, even if it's just to the end of each day as I like to say.

Perseverance, constancy, determination, drive, endurance, immovability, moxie, persistence,  purposefulness, steadfastness, tenacity, attentiveness, commitment, dedication, diligence, honor, honesty, and love.

Here are some photos and quotes that I thought shared and showed this message, including Christ and his one true adversity he had to endure, that we will never have to know because of his true and everlasting love for US his sisters and brothers.

“Adversity is like a strong wind. I don't mean just that it holds us back from places we might otherwise go. It also tears away from us all but the things that cannot be torn, so that afterward we see ourselves as we really are, and not merely as we might like to be.” 

― Arthur Golden, Memoirs of a Geisha

"I do not think there is any other quality so essential to success of any kind as the quality of perseverance. It overcomes almost everything, even nature." John D. Rockefeller

"Most of the important things in the world have been accomplished by people who have kept on trying when there seemed to be no help at all." Dale Carnegie

"All great masters are chiefly distinguished by the power of adding a second, a third, and perhaps a fourth step in a continuous line. Many a man has taken the first step. With every additional step you enhance immensely the value of your first." Ralph Waldo Emerson 

"If I had to select one quality, one personal characteristic that I regard as being most highly correlated with success, whatever the field, I would pick the trait of persistence. Determination. The will to endure to the end, to get knocked down seventy times and get up off the floor saying. "Here comes number seventy-one!" Richard M. Devos 

"Nothing in the world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not; nothing is more common than unsuccessful men with talent. Genius will not; unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will not; the world is full of educated derelicts. Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent. The slogan, 'press on' has solved, and always will solve, the problems of the human race."
Calvin Coolidge

He is there to help us, guide us, stand with us, and endure with us till the very end. He gave ALL that he had for us, he BLED for us, He cried for us, He prayed for us, and He gave his life for us. All he asks in return is for us to follow him and know him. He is close enough that if we just extend out our hand for Him He is there to receive and assist us. Have we shown our respect to Him, have we shown Him even the tiniest bit of the Love he showed us? He hasn't asked much of us but does expect ALL from us, like any parent or elder brother would expect. My hope and prayer is that YES we have and that we continue everyday to endure through the adversities of this life with his help, and show our LOVE for him by doing so.