Motivation Monday: Tailored Trials

Your trials are tailored to you. My trials are tailored to me. Trials can't be compared. 

We will each have moments of desperation in our life where we fall to our knees and beg for change. These moments might be brought on because of infidelity, death, or the recession. They can also be brought on because of a wayward friend or child, a depressed spouse (or self), or a stuffy nose that is seriously just kicking your trash on an already difficult week. Everyone has trials; some trials are more visible than others. But everyone is fighting a battle. 

Why? Because we can't know joy without experiencing sadness. We can't know success without experiencing failure.

Your trials are important. They are big. Please stop comparing bananas to oranges. Both are fruit, but they are not the same. Neither are your trials when compared to others. The principle behind the mountains in our lives is the same, but the experiences itself is not:

I have had cancer. You have not. But you have a spouse who is addicted to pornography and I do not. I have body image issues. You do not. But you struggle with reading and arithmetic and I do not. Who is to say which trial is easier? Who is to say that which troubles are more "valid"? No one.

Your trials are legitimate. Please don't discredit your own personal struggles simply because it appears that so-and-so has it better or worse.

Love,