Discover your treasure!

"It is by going down into the abyss that we recover the treasures of life. Where you stumble, there lies your treasure."
-Joseph Campbell


My daughter came home from school the other day and had a rough day, she cried "Mom, why was today so bad?" My response, "Well honey if all days were good you wouldn't appreciate them so much, it's like sweet and sour chicken (one of her favorite's)you wouldn't taste how sweet it is without some of the sour."

A lot of people wonder why things just seem to go wrong so often or why they can't "get a break" or how much longer they have to struggle to get to where they want to be. Understand that this is a part of the process. You have to continue having faith and working towards your goals and dreams and when you stumble don't get mad, try to learn from it. We will all get there and the only delays are those we need to learn from in order to appreciate accomplishing our goals and dreams when we have them.

Sometimes the lesson to learn is to be happy in the NOW. When you have lost everything you think was important in your life stop and take a look at what you have... even if it is just you then you are blessed. You are important, you are special, you are worth more than any material thing you can have.... You are constant and if you refuse to give up on yourself then you will never fail in anything.

Each lesson you learn prepares you to accept the abundance that is yours. Open yourself to the lessons, ask for them, ask what you are to learn from them while in their throes. Allow the abyss to become a portal to bring you to where you are supposed to be.

Being honest with yourself in your discovery will allow you to find the greatest treasure of all... YOU! The good things and bad things we do (no one is perfect) create the many facets of ourselves and as any jeweler will tell you the more facets you have the more brilliantly you will shine! Make peace with all of who you are and don't break yourself into a million pieces over regrets - larger gems are much more valuable.