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Main Section => Sai Baba Spiritual Discussion Room => Topic started by: ShAivI on November 15, 2015, 03:34:11 AM
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OM SAI RAM !!!
Say `Thank You' When The Going Is Tough
How easy it is for us to thank God when everything is going well!
Life seems to be moving; it seems to be moving on well-oiled wheels,
as it were. But very few of us remember to say `Thank You'.
When we are afflicted by pain and suffering,
we seek God's help in desperation.
If we continue to suffer, we feel that He cannot hear us.
We imagine that He doesn't care!
We berate Him for being indifferent to our suffering.
However, I am talking of a state beyond calling upon God
I am asking you to actually thank God for adversity , suffering and pain.
The trouble with many of us is that we remember God with great alacrity
in our misery but the moment our problems are sorted out,
we cease to think of Him.
Thus, we have just used God; we have treated Him as if He were just
a means to serve our end. Joy and sorrow are both essential to light the
rainbow sky of human life. Our life is as much ennobled by adversity
as it is enriched by joy .
If all of us are content and complacent in our prosperity , there would be
no progress material or spiritual success. Growth and spiritual evolution
depend upon very special qualities like perseverance, tolerance, endurance
and tenacity . It is adversity that helps us develop these `spiritual muscles'.
Adversities and disappointments are meant to strengthen our resolve,
test our faith and enhance our determination to move towards God.
Adversity as a challenge is a great opportunity to learn and improve.
When we face sufferings in the right spirit, we release the hidden potential
in our spirit from unconscious depths, to come to the surface.
I would go so far as to argue that adversity is essential for our spiritual progress.
To react to adversity with bitterness and anger defeats the Divine Plan.
Rather, accept the challenge with gratitude, in the firm consciousness that
`this too shall pass'.
“We brought nothing into His world“ .
And it is certain that we can carry nothing out.
Therefore, all that comes to us during life is a gift.
The hardships, difficulties, trials and tribulations of life are all blessings
for they make us stronger and more self-reliant. It is right, therefore,
that we thank God for these. We curse the rain when it soaks our skin
and ruins our clothes and shoes but is it not the same rain that brings
plenty to our fields and keeps our hunger at bay? It was a wise man
who said that God brings men into deep waters not to drown them,
but to cleanse them.
Let us thank God for sorrow for it teaches us pity and compassion.
Let us thank God for pain and illness for we learn forbearance and patience.
Let us thank God for friends who let us down and hurt us
for we learn the divine quality of forgiveness therefrom.
Let us thank God for suffering it teaches us courage.
Let us thank God for disappointments for they teach us to be ready for His appointment.
No one can be truly happy , unless they are truly grateful for
what they have, regardless of the circumstances.Thankfulness makes
you young in spirit, for it enables you to behold the miraculous hand of God
in everything you see around you.
OM SAI RAM, SHRI SAI RAM, JAI JAI SAI RAM !!!