Lesr’s Reviews > Broken Open: How Difficult Times Can Help Us Grow > Status Update

To turn back is one kind of death; to go forward is another. The first kind of death ends in ashes; the second leads toward rebirth.

Life cont. to provide opport for inner growth, whether we want them or not. We get the chance, over and over again, to turn and face our difficulties-illness, loss, aging, fear, pain… and to ask them, "What have you come to teach me? How can I use this situation to become wiser, braver, kinder, stronger? What can I learn abt myself and my choices and reactions? How do I find the light shining through the cracks?"