Adversity - The Highway to Prosperity

Preparation is normally the word we use when planning for a successful life, "we need to prepare". So, we train, organize practice and plan for our careers. But isn't it amazing that there is never enough preparation for the adverse situations we face. We set goals for prosperity and invite it in with open arms, but adversity is an un-invited foe that never yeilds to rejection, and almost always takes us by surprise. The statements sound something like this, "I did't even see it coming" "I was blindsided". Often times adversity is so devastating it is very difficult to recover and some never do. Okay, it is called by other names, hardships, difficulties, misfortune or hardtimes. "A sword by any other name is still as sharp."

Adversity demolishes the success we have planned and worked a lifetime to obtain. There are times when prosperity is within view and adversity comes along without warning and destroys the very existence of all we have accomplished, as if there was never a beginning. The good news is, We can overcome!

"Hidden in the folds of adversity is prosperity. Adversity adds diversity, variety, enlightment, a need for revision, and solidifies internal toughness and yearning."

• Adversity is the stairsteps with splinters to a prosperous life.
• Adversity is a the thorns on the long stem rose and the rose is success.
• Adversity is being surrounded by the storm. Success and prosperity is the sunshine after the strom is over.
• Adversity is driving down a dirt road with potholes after a hard rain. Prosperity is the pavement after construction is complete.
• Adversity is the failing ecomomy, the layoff, and disappearing jobs after 20 years of service. Prosperity is deciding it is not over.
• Adversity is the dead brown grass after a very cold snowy winter. Success is the beautiful sweet fragrant flowers in the spring.

Providing we take the High Way, prosperity is within our reach.

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