Forged by Fire

Increase the temperature. Keep turning it up, for just as a roast cooks in the oven from the increased heat, you, too, toughen your skin by the same method. Of course we do not mean this literally, but we use this analogy to once again explain that you are forged by fire.

You will face many trials in your life, but you will not know peace until you can look upon the trials as gifts for your soul’s growth. You may not have a choice regarding the trials themselves, but always, always do you have a choice as to how you respond to them. Those who do not understand that growth always results from difficulties will suffer greatly. Those who understand the ways of life in a physical body will endure with head held high. They will respond with love held in the heart for self-as-spirit, which is awakened by these trials, and they will respond with the outward expression of love for all involved in the trials themselves, whether seemingly friend or foe.

In the end, you will see that all are players in the grand drama of life, where your role is not to get caught up in the drama itself, but to remember that you are only playing a temporary role as an actor, whose true identity is Love.