What are your challenges really worth?

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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“When you look at a tree, you see a source of wood, perhaps shelter. You see a thing of strength and beauty. If you open your mind, you may see a chair, a table, even the frame of a sofa. Your physical senses coupled with imagination give you the ability to see what a thing can become. Yet there is so much you cannot see. You cannot see the age of the tree, how deep its roots grow, the number of people who have sat at the foot of the tree to picnic or cry. You do not know how many animals, insects, or people have eaten from the fruit of the tree, or have survived a storm because of the position of that tree. The tree may have medicinal or sentimental value you cannot see. Rest assured, the tree has a value, purpose and meaning beyond all that you can see or imagine.”

When faced with a difficult situation, a challenge in life, you do not always see the intangible value and worth of the experience.

- Iyanla Vanzant, The Spirit Of A Man

What have been the gifts from your difficult and tough life and work challenges?

By the way how real does that tree look to you? Just like our thoughts not everything we think or see is as it is.