to grow...

"You will not grow if you sit in a beautiful garden, but you will grow if you are sick, if you are in pain, if you experience losses, and if you don't put your head in the sand, but take the pain and learn to accept it, not as a curse or punishment but as a gift to you with a very specific purpose." -Elizabeth Kubler-Ross

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xxx said…
I think you can grow in a beautiful garden too... it's just that suffering can be used as a tool to push you forward.

Anyway... even in a beautiful garden you can bare witness to suffering ;)

love to you Stacey
x Robyn
May 13, 2010 at 4:42 PM
Anonymous said…
accept it, not as a curse or punishment ....and that is the true key:)
May 13, 2010 at 4:43 PM
xxx said…
ps... i once sat in a beautiful garden and a big old magnificent tree fell and crushed the entire front of my home :)

actually i was sitting in the living room ;)
May 13, 2010 at 4:44 PM
Menopausal New Mom said…
Very thought-provoking post today but I have to admit, some pain I have endured I would have been happy to NOT have grown from.
May 13, 2010 at 4:52 PM
Jenny Stevning said…
WOW!! That is perfect. That is JUST what I needed today!!!!! Thank you!!
May 13, 2010 at 7:02 PM
kj said…
i am grateful for your wisdom and honesty stacey girl, and i have to add tonight that aren't we lucky to count robyn among our friends?

love love
kj
May 13, 2010 at 7:32 PM
becky said…
Hi Stacey, I just popped over from Kathleen's Blog~ "easy for me to say."
Interesting & thought provoking blog you've got here!
:)
May 13, 2010 at 7:40 PM
Debra She Who Seeks said…
Very true. We learn so much more from failures and setbacks than we do from success and good times.
May 13, 2010 at 7:58 PM
Tabitha Bird said…
Now how wise is that?! Growth doesn't come from sitting in the land of comfortable that is for sure!
May 14, 2010 at 4:24 AM
Cathy said…
Another way to see things, very nicely quoted...I've seen beauty growing amongst the weeds so who can tell what a true "garden" must be?
May 15, 2010 at 1:39 AM
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May 20, 2010 at 5:16 AM
Rosaria Williams said…
Wonderful words to live by.
May 20, 2010 at 1:53 PM
kj said…
hello dear stacey, how are you?
are you still growing like crazy?

i am. :)

love love
kj
May 29, 2010 at 7:31 PM
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