It has taken me a long time to be able to look at a problem I’m having as a necessary spiritual lesson.

We focus a lot on how powerful our thoughts and actions are and in so doing, we overlook one of the most powerful killers of dreams — our words.

In our darkest hour it’s hard to see the end of our circumstance. All we can think of is our conditions worsening.

We have to have a vision for our life, for what we want to become. Most importantly, we have to cherish it and hold on tightly to it when circumstances are telling us that we’ll never see our vision.

Like the biblical Job who said, “the thing I feared most has come upon me,” I, too, had thought myself to where I was.