09/10/2025
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Rising Through What We Go Through
We grow through what we go through.
Every difficulty carries a quiet invitation,
not to break us,
but to shape us.
The losses we grieve,
the disappointments we endure,
the detours we never planned,
all become
the soil from which resilience grows.
Every trial reshapes us,
though we rarely notice it in the moment.
The heartbreaks,
the setbacks,
the quiet nights of doubt,
they press against us
like storms against a tree,
forcing our roots to dig deeper,
our branches to grow stronger.
Growth is not born of joy or ease,
it is carved
from endurance,
from patience,
from the lessons carried within pain.
Like a river cutting through stone,
hardship wears us down,
but it also defines us,
smoothing rough edges,
deepening our channels,
showing us
how to bend
without breaking.
We begin to notice
the pain we carried
becomes compassion for others.
Our scars turn into signposts
for those still lost in the dark.
The storms we face are not ours to choose,
but we can choose what we learn within them,
and in that choice,
we discover
we are not only surviving,
but quietly,
steadily,
rising
toward light,
toward strength,
toward hope.
~ 'Rising Through What We Go Through' by Spirit of a Hippie
✍️ Mary Anne Byrne
~ Art by Serin Alar Serin Alar
