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Lesson Learned

“I walked a mile with Pleasure, She chatted all the way; But left me none the wiser For all she had to say.

I walked a mile with Sorrow, And ne’er a word said she; But, oh! The things I learned from her When Sorrow walked with me.”

― Robert Browning Hamilton

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Lessons Learned

“I walked a mile with Pleasure, She chatted all the way; But left me none the wiser For all she had to say. I walked a mile with Sorrow, And ne’er a word said she; But, oh! The things I learned from her When Sorrow walked with me.”

― Robert Browning Hamilton

22 LESSONS sorrow TEACHES

By Blogger Ken wert

1. PATIENCE2

Enduring a difficult period of suffering not only requires patience of us, but builds it in us as we exercise that often-neglected moral muscle.

2. EMPATHY

The pain we have to endure helps us recognize the pain in others’ lives more readily. We feel for them, remembering the pain we suffered.

3. TOLERANCE

When we experience deep pain in life, the smaller stuff can become easier to tolerate. When you have lived in a box as a prisoner of war for 3 years, a cranky attitude from a store clerk is no big deal. What’s a sprained ankle to a woman who has undergone triple bypass heart surgery?

4. HUMILITY

Life’s trials can have a humbling effect on us. We realize we are not almighty or self-sufficient, that we can’t do all things at all times relying on the strength of our own backs. We come to see the interdependency and importance of support from family and friends … and God. Trials tend to soften the rougher edges of the proud.

5. INNER STRENGTH

As we persevere and endure, we discover an inner strength we didn’t know we had. Sure, there are breaking points for most of us, but so much more inner power resides deep in the grit and fiber of our deepest selves than most of us are aware of … at least until life calls on us to discover it!

6. THE IMPORTANCE OF LAUGHTER

Have you ever been in the middle of a storm when suddenly the clouds part for an instant and the sun peeks through as if to say, “Hold on a little longer, this too shall pass?” This is what often happens with our personal storms as well, as the sunshine of laughter takes on new significance. Such seemingly insignificant moments can make all the difference in our ability to hold on and persevere another day. Laughter, at time, truly is the best medicine.

7. THE IMPORTANCE OF FRIENDSHIP

Our trials and tribulations are often all-consuming. As such, they can strain even the best of relationships. But when we have friends who stay the course, we start to realize the depth and sacredness of friendship.

8. THE IMPORTANCE OF FAMILY

Often when life has become uprooted, families pull together and focus their attention on a common enemy (cancer, natural disaster, loss of a child, financial collapse). Even when friends can’t be there, family often is. It is in those moments that the importance of family can suddenly transcend the memory of fights and contention, offense and rivalry.

9. THE IMPORTANCE OF BEING SURROUNDED BY POSITIVE PEOPLE

Have you ever fought with all your heart, might and soul to keep your thoughts positive while you faced the monstrous giant of adversity? It is a tough ride. We are just so fragile when every ounce of energy is focused laser-beam-like on one goal … emotional or physical survival. Just one negative pessimist can pull the tower down. It becomes crystal clear at such times just how important it is to surround yourself with positive people.

10. THE IMPORTANCE OF POSITIVE THOUGHTS

Dark periods of our lives often bring out our darkest moods. But this just exacerbates the problems we face. Our own thoughts become much more clearly linked in a cause-effect relationship to our ability to navigate troubled waters. We can clearly see how negativity shows up on a heart monitor, how we fail to follow up with calls to rebuild our finances, how the marriage further deteriorates. We can see more clearly the need for a positive attitude and a good dose of optimism when everything else looks dark and foreboding.

11. COMPASSION

Our hearts can be made both larger and softer when squeezed by circumstance. We can very quickly learn to appreciate the decency of others. We remember the pain we felt and the unexpected bright light others emitted when they showed compassion to us in our darkest hour.

12. GRATITUDE FOR THE SMALL THINGS

When life is at its bleakest and it feels like everything is crumbling at your feet (or on top of you!), a flower blooming from a crack in the sidewalk takes on new significance, meaning and beauty.

13. LIFE IS TOO PRECIOUS TO WASTE ON PETTY RESENTMENTS

When crippling life circumstances threaten everything, the petty things we store up in our hearts can suddenly seem as ridiculously trite as they usually are to begin with.

14. THE SMALL STUFF DOESN’T MATTER MUCH

Have you ever gotten so angry at someone you just couldn’t see straight, and then took a step or two back from the situation and realized how foolish it all was? Being confronted by life’s hurtles can have the same effect, drawing us into deeper moods of contemplation, causing us to see more clearly the pettiness of far too many of the things we ordinarily would have taken more seriously.

15. THE BIG STUFF DOES MATTER

But family and friendship, God and character, integrity to cherished values, attributes such as love and courage, compassion and forgiveness suddenly seem more immediately important than they ever did before, often to the point that the smaller stuff gets squeezed out of our hearts and minds.

16. THE IMPORTANCE AND POWER OF TOUCH

When life is churning around us and we feel ourselves sinking, a hand, a hug, a caress, a touch can be magical.

17. PERSEVERANCE

Each moment of pain is preceded by a previous moment of pain. Each moment of pain precedes a following moment of pain. That loop can begin to feel extremely heavy and like it will last an eternity. That’s when hope begins to fail and other more permanent thoughts of escape begin to seem preferable. It is a noble act of profound courage in perseverance to take the next step in life anyway. And that lesson of endurance in suffering can prove invaluable to those who have gained it on the bumpy terrain of life.

18. LIFE IS FRAGILE

As we feel crushed by our particular set of challenges, we can gain a better appreciation for just how easy life can slip away. If this lesson is learned well, so much more of life will be lived with passion and joy. It can also be lengthened by a renewed commitment to better health.

19. TIME MATTERS

Lying in a hospital bed for days on end or a lengthy bout of unemployment has a way of focusing our attention on the issue of time. The glimpses we gain into the fragility of life can lead us to value the seconds that tick away day after day in frivolous pursuits so much more – so much so that we finally start to fill that time with greater meaning and significance.

20. PREVENTION IS A GOOD INVESTMENT

There’s nothing much more instructive of the need to brush your teeth than the loss of them. There is nothing more instructive of the importance of food storage like a natural disaster. There is nothing more instructive of the need to live below one’s means like an economic meltdown.

21. PROCRASTINATION DOESN’T WORK

Similarly, we quickly come to realize that putting off the inevitable doesn’t change its inevitability … and usually makes what was already inevitable much worse than when we first noticed the need to take care of it. Procrastinated tasks have a way of snowballing into bigger adversities. And the pain of the adversity often acts to poignantly underscore the lesson learned.

22. THE IMPORTANCE OF LIVING EVERYDAY WITH PURPOSE, JOY AND MEANING

When we lie at death’s doorstep — or even sit on the curb in front of the house of life’s non-lethal challenges — all the wasted hours and days and weeks of our short lives start to add up to something much more significant than it seemed at the time. We realize so much more could have been done with those fleeting moments, but wasn’t. We regret the love we didn’t express, the forgiveness we didn’t extend, the humanitarian project we never took action to begin, the lives we could have touched but got too busy to make the effort. Time starts to acquire a sacred quality.

Lessons Learned

“I walked a mile with Pleasure, She chatted all the way; But left me none the wiser For all she had to say. I walked a mile with Sorrow, And ne’er a word said she; But, oh! The things I learned from her When Sorrow walked with me.”

― Robert Browning Hamilton

22 LESSONS sorrow TEACHES

By Blogger Ken wert

1. PATIENCE2

Enduring a difficult period of suffering not only requires patience of us, but builds it in us as we exercise that often-neglected moral muscle.

2. EMPATHY

The pain we have to endure helps us recognize the pain in others’ lives more readily. We feel for them, remembering the pain we suffered.

3. TOLERANCE

When we experience deep pain in life, the smaller stuff can become easier to tolerate. When you have lived in a box as a prisoner of war for 3 years, a cranky attitude from a store clerk is no big deal. What’s a sprained ankle to a woman who has undergone triple bypass heart surgery?

4. HUMILITY

Life’s trials can have a humbling effect on us. We realize we are not almighty or self-sufficient, that we can’t do all things at all times relying on the strength of our own backs. We come to see the interdependency and importance of support from family and friends … and God. Trials tend to soften the rougher edges of the proud.

5. INNER STRENGTH

As we persevere and endure, we discover an inner strength we didn’t know we had. Sure, there are breaking points for most of us, but so much more inner power resides deep in the grit and fiber of our deepest selves than most of us are aware of … at least until life calls on us to discover it!

6. THE IMPORTANCE OF LAUGHTER

Have you ever been in the middle of a storm when suddenly the clouds part for an instant and the sun peeks through as if to say, “Hold on a little longer, this too shall pass?” This is what often happens with our personal storms as well, as the sunshine of laughter takes on new significance. Such seemingly insignificant moments can make all the difference in our ability to hold on and persevere another day. Laughter, at time, truly is the best medicine.

7. THE IMPORTANCE OF FRIENDSHIP

Our trials and tribulations are often all-consuming. As such, they can strain even the best of relationships. But when we have friends who stay the course, we start to realize the depth and sacredness of friendship.

8. THE IMPORTANCE OF FAMILY

Often when life has become uprooted, families pull together and focus their attention on a common enemy (cancer, natural disaster, loss of a child, financial collapse). Even when friends can’t be there, family often is. It is in those moments that the importance of family can suddenly transcend the memory of fights and contention, offense and rivalry.

9. THE IMPORTANCE OF BEING SURROUNDED BY POSITIVE PEOPLE

Have you ever fought with all your heart, might and soul to keep your thoughts positive while you faced the monstrous giant of adversity? It is a tough ride. We are just so fragile when every ounce of energy is focused laser-beam-like on one goal … emotional or physical survival. Just one negative pessimist can pull the tower down. It becomes crystal clear at such times just how important it is to surround yourself with positive people.

10. THE IMPORTANCE OF POSITIVE THOUGHTS

Dark periods of our lives often bring out our darkest moods. But this just exacerbates the problems we face. Our own thoughts become much more clearly linked in a cause-effect relationship to our ability to navigate troubled waters. We can clearly see how negativity shows up on a heart monitor, how we fail to follow up with calls to rebuild our finances, how the marriage further deteriorates. We can see more clearly the need for a positive attitude and a good dose of optimism when everything else looks dark and foreboding.

11. COMPASSION

Our hearts can be made both larger and softer when squeezed by circumstance. We can very quickly learn to appreciate the decency of others. We remember the pain we felt and the unexpected bright light others emitted when they showed compassion to us in our darkest hour.

12. GRATITUDE FOR THE SMALL THINGS

When life is at its bleakest and it feels like everything is crumbling at your feet (or on top of you!), a flower blooming from a crack in the sidewalk takes on new significance, meaning and beauty.

13. LIFE IS TOO PRECIOUS TO WASTE ON PETTY RESENTMENTS

When crippling life circumstances threaten everything, the petty things we store up in our hearts can suddenly seem as ridiculously trite as they usually are to begin with.

14. THE SMALL STUFF DOESN’T MATTER MUCH

Have you ever gotten so angry at someone you just couldn’t see straight, and then took a step or two back from the situation and realized how foolish it all was? Being confronted by life’s hurtles can have the same effect, drawing us into deeper moods of contemplation, causing us to see more clearly the pettiness of far too many of the things we ordinarily would have taken more seriously.

15. THE BIG STUFF DOES MATTER

But family and friendship, God and character, integrity to cherished values, attributes such as love and courage, compassion and forgiveness suddenly seem more immediately important than they ever did before, often to the point that the smaller stuff gets squeezed out of our hearts and minds.

16. THE IMPORTANCE AND POWER OF TOUCH

When life is churning around us and we feel ourselves sinking, a hand, a hug, a caress, a touch can be magical.

17. PERSEVERANCE

Each moment of pain is preceded by a previous moment of pain. Each moment of pain precedes a following moment of pain. That loop can begin to feel extremely heavy and like it will last an eternity. That’s when hope begins to fail and other more permanent thoughts of escape begin to seem preferable. It is a noble act of profound courage in perseverance to take the next step in life anyway. And that lesson of endurance in suffering can prove invaluable to those who have gained it on the bumpy terrain of life.

18. LIFE IS FRAGILE

As we feel crushed by our particular set of challenges, we can gain a better appreciation for just how easy life can slip away. If this lesson is learned well, so much more of life will be lived with passion and joy. It can also be lengthened by a renewed commitment to better health.

19. TIME MATTERS

Lying in a hospital bed for days on end or a lengthy bout of unemployment has a way of focusing our attention on the issue of time. The glimpses we gain into the fragility of life can lead us to value the seconds that tick away day after day in frivolous pursuits so much more – so much so that we finally start to fill that time with greater meaning and significance.

20. PREVENTION IS A GOOD INVESTMENT

There’s nothing much more instructive of the need to brush your teeth than the loss of them. There is nothing more instructive of the importance of food storage like a natural disaster. There is nothing more instructive of the need to live below one’s means like an economic meltdown.

21. PROCRASTINATION DOESN’T WORK

Similarly, we quickly come to realize that putting off the inevitable doesn’t change its inevitability … and usually makes what was already inevitable much worse than when we first noticed the need to take care of it. Procrastinated tasks have a way of snowballing into bigger adversities. And the pain of the adversity often acts to poignantly underscore the lesson learned.

22. THE IMPORTANCE OF LIVING EVERYDAY WITH PURPOSE, JOY AND MEANING

When we lie at death’s doorstep — or even sit on the curb in front of the house of life’s non-lethal challenges — all the wasted hours and days and weeks of our short lives start to add up to something much more significant than it seemed at the time. We realize so much more could have been done with those fleeting moments, but wasn’t. We regret the love we didn’t express, the forgiveness we didn’t extend, the humanitarian project we never took action to begin, the lives we could have touched but got too busy to make the effort. Time starts to acquire a sacred quality.

Words of Wisdom

Every great dream begins with a dreamer. Always remember, you have within you the strength, the patience, and the passion to reach for the stars to change the world. Harriet Tubman Read more at: https://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/harriet_tubman_310306

Lives of great men all remind us, we can make our lives sublime, and, departing, leave behind us, footprints on the sands of time. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Read more at: https://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/henry_wadsworth_longfello_124600

We judge ourselves by what we feel capable of doing, while others judge us by what we have already done.

HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW, Kavanagh: A Tale

Jalin Makes New Friends [Dorothy S. Taylor, Shelia E. Bell] on Amazon.com. *FREE* shipping on qualifying offers. Jalin and his dog, Rex, are swept away by a whirlwind into an unknown, far away place. Jalin is surprised at what he finds in this strange new land. Jalin meets the mighty lion

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"Tried Him And I Know Him" (1986) Mattie Moss Clark & Twinkie Clark

SHOUT TO THE LORD (LYRICS)

"Live So God Can Use Me" (1970) B. C. & M. Choir

Bless the LORD at all times

The Earth is the LORD’s and the fullness thereof;

The World, and they that dwell therein.

The sea is his, and his hands formed the dry land.

O magnify the LORD with me, and let us exalt his name together! O come, let us worship and bow down; let us kneel before the LORD our maker!

I will BLESS the LORD at all times! His PRAISE! shall continually… continually… continually… be in my mouth!!!

My soul! makes her boast…. in the LORD!

(Psalms 24:1; Psalms 95:5; Psalms 34:3; Psalms 95:6; Ps 34:1-2)

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