Beyond the Challenges

by Doreen Washington

Count every turbulence, trial, test, and challenge a joy when you fall into them. What is life if we are unable to see the joy and the beauty in all things?

Our lowest always seems at its worst at our darkest hours, but if we wait for a few hours and look out of the window, we’ll see a new day has sprung forth - daylight has reared its head and in the worst of situations light has burst through and the beauty of it has shined down on us.

Sometimes we let the emotional part of our being take our hearts away from acknowledging all the beauty that surrounds us while in the middle of that trial, test or challenge. Can we count everything a joy even when the situation doesn’t look great?  Life can only be what we make it after we have decided to see it for its beauty or its ugliness. I choose to see the beauty in the life that I have and the essence of what I have decided it to be.

 

We choose - not our circumstances, not our jobs, not our financial status or the lack thereof. When we decide that we will enjoy every bit of this wonderful life and all the beauty and wonder that it has to offer us, then we will rise to the next level in our existence and then we will rise to the next level of knowing our own heart beat.

 

What is your heart beat? Is it the ugliness of life circumstances or is it the beauty and the potential of what you make it?

You are a free-willed being - will you decide today to choose joy instead of pain, to choose life instead of death, to choose happiness instead of sadness and depression. Will you choose?

Joy is waiting to gush out of you, happiness is waiting for you to command it to spring forth and your spirit is waiting to hear you speak to it and command it to live! Say something now, say something today. I have, will you? We are woman!

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Wednesday's "We Are Woman" column is created by Doreen Washington. Doreen resides in Newport News, VA.  She is the author of her newest book, We Are Woman, an inspiring book that speaks to women about their strength, value and victories. Her next book, Trapped - Learning to live free while waiting for romance and marriage, will hit book stores in early 2010.

Doreen is also the Founder and Executive Director of The FACE Foundation, a non-profit charitable organization that focuses its resources on assisting single working mothers. You can visit Doreen's blog at www.doreenwashington.blogspot.com.