On overcoming tribulations instead of avoiding them

[HokeyReligions]

Much of our lives are spent trying to avoid tribulation instead of overcoming it. The more we face it the more we get used to it, and the better we get equipped to handle more …sounds like a bad vicious circle - but I figure that hopefully the more I face, the more darkness is being dealt with. Our pursuit in life shouldn't be to avoid tribulation but to figure out how we overcome. So because it is impossible to avoid trouble of some kind or another, our focus should shift from being influenced - or overcome - by the trouble, to influencing it - or overcoming it.

 

At the end of Dr Seuss's book - we read:

 

Then I started back home to the Valley of Vung.

I know I'll have troubles; I'll maybe get stung.

I'll maybe get bit

By that Green-Headed Quail on the place where I sit

 

But I've bought a big bat

I'm all ready, you see.

Now my troubles are going

To have troubles with me.

 

 

 

A friend sent me this - I liked it and thought I'd share.

[moimeme]

Thanks, Hokey. I, for one, needed that. *Love* Seuss, too (but then who doesn't?)

[jenny]

Hokey, i think that was a very cool post, i love seuss. but i only sort of understand it... other daily examples would help me...?

 

i'm a bit of an avoider, i'm afraid. but it just seems to me if something in life is no longer giving one pleasure, or is causing more stress than benefit, it's gotta go. there are too many things to do out there. but i'm open to debate on the issue; i've never really thought too much about it before.

 

xox j