Facing Challenges - Transforming to hope

Here are my final thoughts on the idea of Facing Challenges. Thanks to everyone who has followed along. I hope that it has been of some value and benefit to you in any way. Here goes...

Challenges show up in our lives to help us. There are a lot of negative things that we can think about challenges but what are some of the positive things that challenges can do for us? Here are four ways that our challenges can help us:
1. They help us grow.
2. They produce and form the character of who we are.
3. They strengthen our beliefs and faith.
4. They are used to help us to strengthen, support, and encourage others.

Challenges are the secret weapon that can bring hope into our lives.
We can look at any challenge that shows up and move through it towards hope for what we already have or things to come. So what are the steps for how to transform your life challenges to hope?
I see that they can be broken down into the following three stages:

1. Allowing our Challenges to drive our Perseverance
When we face our challenges and respond in an appropriate way, we can produce perseverance.

2. Allowing Perseverance to shape our Character
When we have perseverance that drives us to understand the true meaning and lessons from a challenge in our live it shapes our character.

3. Allowing our Character to produce Hope
When our character is shaped and grows through the lessons of our challenges, it strengthens our beliefs and faith which produces hope.

When someone tells you: "There is always hope, don't give up.", what is your response?
Do you hear these words and believe them to be true? or do you think they are just for someone else?
Most of us believe these words are for someone else. We even will say them to someone else who is going through a challenging time in
their life. We need to have faith that no matter what our challenges are that we face in our lives, there is hope that they will help us to persevere and grow in character.

In conclusion, when our belief and faith is demonstrated by our actions, life works. So Hold on, don't give up, persevere through every moment of life to the end! Remember, on the other side of our life challenges there is always hope.

Have a fantastic week ahead!
God Bless,