This post focuses on having a good attitude toward drawing benefit from adversity. Adversity provides opportunities for meaningful decisions regarding ease and selfishness versus applying oneself to benefit others. Consequently, we should welcome difficulties, uncertainties, and adversity because they invariably are useful for spiritual self-discovery and growth. Adversities are opportunities to make choices that matter, not qualifying tests. Viewed as celestial gifts, they provide proof that your education is being attended to by your celestial teachers.
Contrary to our natural urges, adversity should be appreciated and celebrated. In that frame of mind–
I want:
to feast upon uncertainty.
to fatten upon disappointment.
to enthuse over apparent defeat.
to invigorate in the presence of difficulties.
to exhibit indomitable courage in the face of immensity.
to exercise unconquerable faith when confronted with the challenge of the inexplicable.
not to grow weary in doing good just because I am thwarted.
to let pressure develop stability and certainty in me.
to be faithful and earnest and cheerful in everything.
to face difficulties and uncertainties without fear.
if I fail, to rise indomitably to try anew.
to recognize that sometimes my most disappointing disappointments become my greatest blessings.
to remember in my disappointment that sometimes my fondest selfish hopes must die before the seed of virtues can germinate to bear the fruits of new life and new opportunity.
to suffer less through sorrow and disappointment by making fewer personal plans concerning other personalities.
to accept my lot when I have faithfully performed my duty.
to take myself less seriously.
to multiply my accomplishments by the technique of being less self-important.
to have more energy by maintaining less self- pride involvement.
[From the Urantia Book]
