Go Through

 The Only Way out is Through!

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As much as we want to escape from whatever... be it our relationship conflicts, our life circumstances, our boredom, our negative thoughts,  our heavy feelings, our challenges, and our pain...there really is no escaping. I mean we can stuff everything down away from our conscious awareness with denial, supression, repression, numbing activities, projection and blame...but we cannot run from Life. It will catch up with us eventually and when it does we will realize that our attempts at running and avoiding have actually turned our pain into full out suffering. We will have even more to deal with. 

When will we learn that the only way out of challenge and difficulty is to go through it?  When will we be willing to notice it, allow it, sit with it, look deeply into it and then maybe even embrace it...seeing the learning value of it?  

Challenge helps us to grow...as long as we don't shrink away from it. 

Hmm!  Something to think about.