I asked for strength, and God gave me difficulties to make me strong. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
I asked for wisdom, and God gave me problems to solve. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
I asked for courage, and God gave me dangers to overcome. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
I asked for love, and God gave me troubled people to help<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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A Sufi poem attributed to Hazrat Inayat Khan that was discovered while mindlessly scrolling on Facebook today. Of course, my mind automatically wondered what I should ask for to get less troubles. What if I asked for nothing?<\/p>\n\n\n\n
I love this as an answer to “Why does God _____” though. Why do natural disasters exist? Why do people do evil things? Why did this happen to me? <\/p>\n\n\n\n
We don’t ask God “Why me?” when it’s something good. It’s usually reserved for when it’s something bad. This was something someone shared with my mother when she had cancer. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
I feel like this islamic poem might be a good place to start from to be at peace with things we have no control over.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
It Ends with Us by Colleen Hoover<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n I finished this book in two days – Thanks, Covid.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The book depicted relationships and the pain that we’re willing to accept that comes with love. It made me think about my parents, and I wondered what my life would have been like if my mother chose (and if she succeeded) in ending her life when those thoughts crossed her mind all those years ago. <\/p>\n\n\n\n What I<\/em> would be like. I would probably remember very little about her. There’d be no family business. My father would probably be re-married. Would he have a job? Would he be gambling? Would he be in jail? I would probably not have gone to university. I would have poor opportunities. I would probably have poor judgement. I would definitely not be me.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The people who know me have told me what a well adjusted, self-aware human being I have become, in spite of my stories. But this isn’t something that’s surprising to me because of the opportunities I have been given. I was allowed to grow without baggage and worries, unaware of the pain and suffering my mother endured.<\/p>\n\n\n\n And so, on this random day on 6 October 2022. I thank my mother for being able to tahan<\/em> and overcome the difficulties and problems and dangers that God gave her. And for people around her who love her because she loves them.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" I asked for strength, and God gave me difficulties to make me strong. I asked for wisdom, and God gave me problems to solve. I asked for courage, and God gave me dangers to overcome. I asked for love, and God gave me troubled people to help A Sufi poem attributed to Hazrat Inayat Khan […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":942,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-936","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-daily"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/catchmyfall.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/936","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/catchmyfall.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/catchmyfall.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/catchmyfall.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/catchmyfall.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=936"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/catchmyfall.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/936\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":946,"href":"https:\/\/catchmyfall.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/936\/revisions\/946"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/catchmyfall.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/942"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/catchmyfall.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=936"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/catchmyfall.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=936"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/catchmyfall.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=936"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}