Even when things are painful or challenging, they are here to set us free.
(Don’t misconstrue this and apply it to rationalising staying in an abusive relationship, or minimising valid, basic needs).
There is sometimes a fierceness to grace and how we can be forced or squeezed through a process that has the potential to shed us of our crap, our hurt and the untruth we no longer need.
Often this shedding process feels like the pain is getting worse, because it has to come up to be seen in order to be worked with and released. But to stay present to our experience means it can burn itself out and release the grip it has on us. Lightening our bonds and bringing liberation.
There is an opportunity, an inner choice; to run/avoid or to stay the course with ourselves, and to trust in the longer vision of who we are becoming.. and to in time receive and rejoice in the gift of growth and release.
The divine design is to open our heart, not to make us suffer.
RATNA DYER 