Trials to Triumph

We’re finally doing it. Moving from our beloved home of 33 years. Downsizing from a 3k sf home with all the years of livingness and accumulations, into a furnished 1.6k sf home. Lots of renovations, repairs, painting, and replacements underway, with the dust and chaotic clutter that entails. And LOTS of life passed—and the past—to let go.

Since 2008 we’ve dreamed of moving to our “mountain home” on a “hill” on 50 acres. Much of it is steep hillsides with varied terrain and woodlands best for wildlife, but also big sky views with sunrise and sunset, and plenty of space for gardens and orchards!

We invested in that property with visions to have been living there long ago, but then blow after financial blow happened. Then came more loss after loss, setback after setback, and all our best laid plans aiming toward retirement, all but evaporated.

So we rented it out instead. Since then, we’ve been through 16 years of downturns and struggles of all kinds, including losing our retirement when retirement was but a stone’s throw away.

Yet, as you’ve heard before and have likely even experienced yourself, so often the worst that happens ends up being the best in so many ways and for so many reasons. 

For example, our old home is next door to my mother’s home. She ended up needing our 24 hour care in her last month, and daily assistance months before that, plus a regular presence for the years or so before her passing. If we had moved sooner, it would’ve been harder on her and on us.

And so it goes for so very many things in life that are there for us to learn through.

It is indeed the hard things that we go through that we grow through most.

When we turn trials into triumphs and allow the transformation that’s awaiting birth, we unlock the full potential of our resilience, and discover strengths we never knew we possessed. 

Through an open heart and mind and an eagerness to always seek the good in whatever may be, we can not only survive but thrive.

And consider that your soul knows what you can handle and chooses for you the experiences you most need to learn through.

Focus on gratitude and on what’s right and good and true in whatever is before you.

We are alchemists capable of turning trials into triumph.

Transformation through creation.
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 ~ LeAura

The day is the way.
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