Success consists in the overcoming of difficulties. All men and women who have made a success of any kind have done so by overcoming difficulties. There was a time when laying a telegraph line from New York to Boston presented many difficulties. Then there was a time when doing that was easy, but laying the Atlantic cable presented difficulties. Later on, marine cable laying became a routine business, but radio across the ocean presented problems that for a time were insuperable.
If you have a personal disability that seems to keep you from success, do not accept it as such, but capitalize on it and use it as the instrument for your success. H. G. Wells had to give up a dull underpaid job because of ill health, so he stayed at home and wrote successful books and became a world-known author instead. Edison was stone deaf and decided that this would enable him to concentrate better on his inventions. Theodore Roosevelt was a sickly child, very shortsighted and nervous. However, he worked hard to develop his body and became, as we know, a strong husky open-air man and big game hunter.
The owner of a fashionable dress business in London was the wife of a struggling clerk, who was stricken with tuberculosis. She had never been in business, and had no training, and found herself having to support a husband and two children. She started with nothing but good taste in clothes and a belief in prayer.
… To him that overcometh will I give to eat of the tree of life (Revelation 2:7).
It is human nature to avoid difficulty and to view any disability as a flaw or a barrier to our dreams. Yet, it is our spiritual nature that gives us true understanding of hardship’s value and of the benefits gained by overcoming that which we lack. It is our spiritual self that grows to new proportions when we overcome. It is our spiritual self that seeks the road less traveled instead of viewing life through the prism of disability. And, it is the spirit in us that pushes us to achieve great things by overcoming our challenges.
This truth is born out in the history of humans. That history demonstrates the greatest achievers all overcame major difficulties and perceived disabilities to exceed their wildest dreams. In fact, most of these great achievements would have never occurred unless there had been a challenge to conquer.
So, when we face the challenges life has thrown at us, we should listen to our spiritual selves instead of our human selves. That spirit will be saying to us, “God has sent you a special gift wrapped in difficulty and challenges. It is a blessing made especially for you, and if you accept it, embrace it and overcome it, you will accomplish the great things God planned for you. And many will benefit from it, but none more than you. Your reward will be to live in the garden created for you in peace, hope and confidence and you will eat from the tree of life forever.”
Embracing all blessings,
Z gardener
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