Have you been through fiery trial (s) and came out . . . .?

I wouldn't call myself fine gold, I think more along the lines of becoming tempered steel from all the fire and the beatings. I'm a lot stronger for all that I've been through.

This is one of the worst trials I've gone through, but there are others that were close:

Within 16 months, my best friend of 18 years was killed in a car accident, my grandmother who lived next door to me that I was very close to died after slipping into a complete state of dementia that was a painful roller coaster for all of us. A cousin that I'd taken care of when he was a little boy fell asleep at the wheel and drowned when his car landed in a creek, leaving behind a teen-aged wife and newborn son. My favorite uncle died while on the phone with me (he called our house rather than calling 911 and we don't really know why). Then to top it all off, our substitute maid of honor, since we couldn't postpone our wedding that summer, died from injuries in a car accident just after the wedding on mine and my husband's birthday.

It took a long time to get t straight in my head that all of this didn't mean there was some sort of curse on me and those I cared about. It also made me start appreciating everything I have and every day I'm given more than I ever did before, and I make sure other people know how I feel about them.

I've been able to be the shoulder for many others who have lost loved ones. They know I understand grief and that I'm there for them.

This cookie is burnt out for sure and now that is why I am up here in the nawth country of Canada. As Popeye would say "That's all I can stands, and I can stands no more!"

Deaths of family members: brothers, sisters, neice, mother, father, on and on.

And of course the real biggie: KATRINA after which I had to sell my home I grew up in and never to return.

The prelim became into sufficient for me! I by no potential went back for the actual trial. all of it labored out, cuz the guy that attacked me pled accountable & served out his sentence of 8 years. Now I would desire to contemplate whether he needs to end me off. He can no longer be happy approximately how issues became out. I merely wish he can circulate on together with his life & save it on a greater helpful highway. Trails commonly make the victims sounds like the the undesirable adult men. it fairly is why i became into "unavailable" while the trial began. I did sent them a word affirming how I felt & enable them to be attentive to i may well be in touch while they lived as much as their end of the deal & have been given me that housing, scientific & dental help that became into promised. i think of all events lost in that distinctive conflict. i easily theory the fool might combat it & win or a minimum of decrease a deal...yet he folded while the canines & pony practice did no longer have between the gamers to end the act! OOPS!

The refiner's fire also humbles us. Even to think we have found humility is to turn it to vanity. So it would be to think we are becoming as fine gold. Humility is so illusive it cannot be found. Only by being bellow all things can we allow it to find us.