The world breaks everyone and afterwards many are strong at the broken places. ~ Ernest Hemingway

Hard times suck, pardon my language.  But there is no doubt about that.  I don’t think anybody has ever gone through a difficult time and said “Yippee, that was fun.” But there is something good that comes from challenges, they make you stronger.  I’m going to be completely honest.  I started writing this post at about 8:00 this morning.  Things kept happening, and I had to put it aside.  No big deal, I figured I’d finish it after lunch.

Well today after lunch, something happened at work.  And it broke me.  I am literally shattered into a million pieces deep inside my soul.  I want nothing more than to crawl under my covers and cry for a month.  I am broken, and maybe in a few days, weeks or even months, it will make me stronger, but right now, I just hurt.

It’s funny, someone tried to point out a couple of good things that tied into all of this, and I practically bit their head off.  Logically I know the good things that have come from this.  I’ve even said a few of them out loud myself.  Are they making me feel better?  Yes and no.  I’m still broken inside, but I am reminding myself of those silver lining things.  It’s not making my world sunshine, butterflies and roses, but it is helping to put things into perspective.  And maybe in perspective is a good place to start.  And maybe soon those broken places will start to go back together, and maybe, just maybe I’ll be stronger because of it.