I had some really interesting conversations today.  With a few different people… more than a few actually.  And each individual brought a much different story, or conversation, or insight into my day.

But one thing that I heard a few different times….  is that each and every one of us are…. at times… faced with a problem, or a challenge, or a hardship.

It seems to me that life is a process of meeting and solving problems. And in doing such…. in unraveling the answer, or figuring out a solution…. we test and develop our spirituality.  We find in ourselves… some sort of courage, or vision, or compassion.  Fortitude.  It is truly at those times when we become great…  (  if only for a moment  ) ….. not in spite of our problems, but because of them.

I don’t know if you pray or don’t pray.  Or if you think higher thoughts about life… and call it something completely different.  But perhaps we should not focus on praying for a life that has no problems.  That would be fruitless.  As I learned, (once again today) …. we all have problems.

Rather than pray for a life that is problem-free…..maybe instead …. we should focus on having a life which is solution-full.

Instead of walking six blocks around…. to avoid walking underneath a ladder…. we should simply go over… and move the ladder out of our path.
Or climb up… to the next floor above…. and see what’s might be there.

We live.  We learn.  And we grow.

The trouble with life isn’t that there is no answer, it’s that there are so many answers.  —  Ruth Benedict

Love is the only sane and satisfactory answer to the problem of human existence.  —  Erich Fromm

Are these people with the quotes just aimed to confuse me?  —  Polly C Kronenberger