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Daily Question, November 30

How have challenges taught me to stand in new ways?

  • Michele

    By being self reliant/independent. Never giving up hope. Staying positive.

  • Misty

    Challenges have helped me to develop humility and empathy, two areas which I hadn’t been aware I was somewhat lacking in.

  • Ose

    First, to accept challenges and deal with them rather than fighting them, and once I found the truth of my heart in it, leave fear behind and stand for what my heart is telling me.

  • Malag

    That’s one thing we share in common: challenges. Over the years various challenges, including health related and bereavements, have taught me a lot more self compassion. I’m softer on myself rather than harder. And then my stance with other people is also softer. And that gives me the gift of a closer and more real connection with others and with me also.

  • Ann

    Having been, since early childhood, the strong independent type, some challenges, like those after my husband died, made me be OK with needing and then accepting help from others. Thank God for the friends who stepped in!!

  • Samuel
    What I perceive to be my greatest challenge is attempting to move on with my life in spite of the loss of my beloved wife after 53 years of marriage and loving companionship. It is unquestionably the hardest task I have ever had set before me in all my 76 years. The single hardest thing to cope with is the loss of her love and companionship. Hard on the heels of that emptiness comes the fact that all the once-settled aspects of my shared life with her have irrevocably changed. Everything, from p...

    What I perceive to be my greatest challenge is attempting to move on with my life in spite of the loss of my beloved wife after 53 years of marriage and loving companionship. It is unquestionably the hardest task I have ever had set before me in all my 76 years. The single hardest thing to cope with is the loss of her love and companionship. Hard on the heels of that emptiness comes the fact that all the once-settled aspects of my shared life with her have irrevocably changed. Everything, from preparing a simple meal to the most complicated event planning now requires a totally different approach from when we, as a couple, both participated. As Debra so eloquently put it, “moving forward and standing tall is my challenge.” I am grateful to my God, my family (including my church family and many Bryson City friends whom I count as family), and a number of inspirational readings and websites (including this one) that have aided me in maintaining a (mostly) positive attitude and future outlook. I still have many “new ways of standing” to learn…
    sb

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    • Malag

      I really appreciate you sharing this perspective Samuel. Thank you.

  • Hot Sauce
    My challenges are what taught me to take a stand at all in the first place. As a young child, I believed whatever the adults told me and didn't question. If someone asked me where I stand, I would probably just repeat something an adult told me. As I grew during my teen years, however, I experienced challenges related to questions about faith, meaning, purpose, ethics, and existence. Asking these hard questions created some existential and spiritual crises for me, but it also taught me to take a...

    My challenges are what taught me to take a stand at all in the first place. As a young child, I believed whatever the adults told me and didn’t question. If someone asked me where I stand, I would probably just repeat something an adult told me. As I grew during my teen years, however, I experienced challenges related to questions about faith, meaning, purpose, ethics, and existence. Asking these hard questions created some existential and spiritual crises for me, but it also taught me to take a stand for myself, rather than just unquestioningly believing whatever I’m taught.

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  • Mica

    I’ll be a broken record and re-share:
    I’m loving the workbook my wise son recommended:
    Coming to Wholeness: How to Awaken and Live with Ease (The Wholeness Work Book 1)
    by Connirae Andreas
    It gives me a way to move from negative mental thoughts to the sensations in the body and how to work toward releasing them.

  • Skeeter

    Wow, that is a great question and one that requires more time on my part. Ah, my life is a work in progress. My ego still gets in the way & before I realize it , I have reacted poorly. Like Amor, most of my personal challenges are self created. Nonetheless, I try to go back to focusing on the present moment as a gift.. get out of my head, breath, and find joy if I can.

  • Tom

    Although I am still learning this lesson, challenges have taught me to stand committed to the process of being present to challenges. Some challenges I like and embrace full heartedly and others, even though I may have naively chosen them, or may not like everything about them, still require my commitment. Being present to these less than desired challenges has taught me to have a stance of acceptance , and to lean into my challenges with dignity.

  • Linda

    Think first, then act (or not).

  • Present Moment

    I am learning to shorten the stories I tell myself, letting go of conditioned reactions and returning to conscious present moment many times during the day. Most of my challenges are self created.

  • Barb
    I love a good challenge in fact I think for the most part i thrive on them. many of my jobs have been to take a shop that isn't working and turn it around. Once its working I lose interest and need my next challenge. In my personal life however, challenges impact me differently. They give me gi problems, headaches, and a general sense of dismay. I'm trying to learn to realize that I can't fix everything for everybody. I was that middle child fixer of all problems in a volatile home. I kept th...

    I love a good challenge in fact I think for the most part i thrive on them. many of my jobs have been to take a shop that isn’t working and turn it around. Once its working I lose interest and need my next challenge. In my personal life however, challenges impact me differently. They give me gi problems, headaches, and a general sense of dismay. I’m trying to learn to realize that I can’t fix everything for everybody. I was that middle child fixer of all problems in a volatile home. I kept the peace as much as possible. That still hangs with me today.. It’s getting better but still a work in progress. I need to remind myself that even one small step away from that is a big deal and I should be grateful for that change.

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  • Mary MacGowan
    Here I am, in a drafty RV, challenged unbelievably so, to cope with the RV, the wintry weather, a sick dog. I'm having a lovely time with my children and grandchildren while I'm here, I must say. But this RV is ROUGH! This RV is definitely teaching me to stand in new ways. I've learned that my RV dream is over. I've learned that I'm just not the type. I've learned that RVing takes work, even when you just rent the thing. The owner texted me last night to check the level of something, which I'm g...

    Here I am, in a drafty RV, challenged unbelievably so, to cope with the RV, the wintry weather, a sick dog. I’m having a lovely time with my children and grandchildren while I’m here, I must say. But this RV is ROUGH! This RV is definitely teaching me to stand in new ways. I’ve learned that my RV dream is over. I’ve learned that I’m just not the type. I’ve learned that RVing takes work, even when you just rent the thing. The owner texted me last night to check the level of something, which I’m going to do, but oh the novelty has already worn off. Fantasy of RVing is OVER! ha! And that is something this challenge has taught me.

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  • Mark Piper

    I still react in a sub-optimal way to most challenges, especially new challenges. I can exaggerate the challenge, I can be impetuous in my reaction, and my default posture is self-preservation. I’m sure I have been given opportunities to stand in new ways to face challenges with less fear and angst, but I have not yet availed myself to these new ways.

  • Kevin

    Life‘s challenges have taught me to stand, upright.

  • Tom Denham

    Challenges have taught me to stand with others in community. Evil takes us out one at a time. Evil is not strong enough when we stand together.

  • GCharlotte

    Challenges have taught me to stand in new ways by shedding light on God during the weakness of my womanhood.

  • sunnypatti

    I have learned to live in God-reliance rather than self-reliance. To trust His will for me and let go of expectations of how situations and people should be. I have learned I am not in control, and when I was trying to control my world, it was a mess! Now that I have handed all of that over, I am happy, joyous and free. My life is simple and I am grateful for another chance to live it every day that I wake up.

  • Ed Schulte

    They further embed in my experiencing BE-ing-ness and the truth behind the beauty in the ‘Word of the Day’

    “We don’t have to wait for some grand utopian future. The future is an infinite succession of presents, and to live now as we think human beings should live, in defiance of all that is bad around us, is itself a marvelous victory.”
    HOWARD ZINN

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