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character in how we face our challenges ...
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A friend asked me about a line from a currently popular author: "God is more interested in your character than your comfort."
"Is it true?" he wondered, adding "Not always." I believe it is true, and in my view, I do not think it matters even whether you believe in God. The essence of the statement remains true regardless.
Serendipitously, I had just listened to someone talking about skiing: "It's not about getting to the bottom of the slope," he said.
"It's about how many runs can you get in while there is daylight." Reminded me that years ago my friend and I touched on how conditions children are raised in affect the rest of their lives. A child may be raised in an affluent home or in a family which has very little materially; one grows up in a loving home while another suffers abuse of some kind, and other differences affect an individual's growth - but how do people turn out ? Not alway the same results from same conditions, nor for the same reasons. A person can grow up in a very loving home and turn out to be someone you would not want to share the same side of the street with. It is always up to us, individually - as *self-owners* possessing Free Will - to decide how we personally face challenges, or whether we hide from them, and we decide how those challenges affect us ultimately. In other words, whatever experiences and challenges we face in life, none of them provide comfort, nor do they prevent from finding comfort or being comforted, or comfortable, but they ALL DO give us opportunity to shape our own character in some way, and what we do in that process, the character we do create for ourselves personally, can make a great difference in how "comfortable" we are, not just physically, but spiritually - "for the long run" - so I think that one line is a great message.
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This intel was contributed by jamonbo
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