I love a glass of dry
red wine from time to time. Chardonnay is alright but when I was 19 I got
really drunk on white wine and to this day I don’t really enjoy white like I
did before that episode.
Why do so many young
adults drink more than they need to? For me I think it was a learning curve –
testing out how much is too much, and how much is enough. And that’s cool. We
learn as children after Easter how much is ‘too much’ chocolate. We often learn
the hard way what are our limits.
But sometimes we eat or
drink , work or play ‘too hard’ because we don’t really want to stop and face
what life is giving us. But you know what? I’ve learned that everything put
before us is for ultimate good. I’ve friends who lost a child aged 9. The
daughter fell out of a tree and broke her neck. For sure it was a horrible
tragedy to endure. But years later, they’ve raised their other two children to
adulthood and have helped hundreds of people through bereavement.
There are some things
that happen to us that we don’t bring on ourselves. There are heinous crimes
being committed against innocent people. But good can come from evil and facing
our pain brings the pain to an eventual conclusion.
Whatever the reason for
‘too much’ in our lives, there is always a way to face and to overcome. Time
heals, God heals; starting again is a healing process. Whatever the pain,
whatever the cause for grief, a tear shed is one less tear holding onto you,
and one more step toward wholeness.
Character grows out of
adversity. Trust that and you can climb over any mountain, even if it is only
one step at a time.
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