OUR CHALLENGES ONLY MAKE US STRONGER

A man visited an orange grove where an irrigation pump had broken down. The season was unusually dry and some of the trees were beginning to dry up for lack of water. The man giving the tour then took the first man to his own orchard where irrigation was used sparingly. “These trees could go without rain for another two weeks,” he said. “You see, when they were young, I frequently kept water from them. This hardship caused them to send their roots deeper into the soil in search of moisture. Now mine are the deepest rooted trees in the area.”

 Truth is, we go through tough times and challenges in life to deepen our roots; these challenges give us firmer ground through all of life’s confrontations. Everyone has their tests and trials but we are well equipped to overcome them and these situations in due course make us tougher and wiser. We learn from them to become better people.