True strength can be experienced when we acknowledge we have no strength at all.
People can go through experiences and emerge from it. This is not an indication that they are stronger.
The thing about being strong for some is about a brave face, not giving anyone a hint of vulnerability or pain. This encourages a facade that some spend so much time constructing that there is little to no substance behind it.
For others, strength is found in acknowledging weakness. Not just weakness but uselessness. Not just uselessness but a complete ineptitude at life. That acknowledgement is not an excuse to be hopeless. On the contrary, it is a call for help at the end of themselves so that the source of true life can work from the inside out. That admission changes everything.
That pattern of humility is the source of true strength. It nothing that points to self as the source of survival. It is everything about indicating the greatest power at hand to those who acknowledge their poverty of spirit. Pointing to that power is then evident in lives and relationships that overcome setbacks and failings, learns from victories and successes. In that there is the hope of truly experiencing what it is to go through life getting stronger.
True strength can be experienced when we acknowledge we have no strength at all.
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Shalom
C. L. J. Dryden
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