The Meaning of the Trials and Struggles of Our Life

I remember that many years ago I was talking withdreams of your soul are like water in rivers and
a friend about the meaning of life and of the trialsoceans. When the two meet, when the energy of
that each of us meet. For him, life could be summedyour Divine Self meets your trials and your passion
up in a succession of struggles and mankind isthen something amazing happens. Then an infinite
condemned to fight forever with Fate in order toenergy is deployed and propels you higher and higher
steal some moments of happiness. In my life I haveby helping you to integrate the lessons of life. By
often met people for whom life was primarily a storyintegrating them you will get more and more in tune
about problems, suffering, lack and unfinished dreams.with your soul legend.
According to them, that shadow is the mainEach experience in our life offers us the choice to
character of their existence. I totally understand thereact instinctively through the filter of our fears, our
path that could lead them to have that perception ofeducation, our past act or consciously through our
their life. However, despite my share of personalDivine Self, our creative power and infinite love that
trials, I do not share this vision.lies within.
The life of each person, and so your life particularly,I believe that life is where we come to make peace
is not a story about fears or failures. It is simply awith our imperfections and our fears, a place where
story about you as an individual and embodied soul. Itwe come to learn and grow as souls. We all come on
is a story about your adventure. The trials are notthis Earth with lessons to learn, challenges to
the main characters of your Personal Legend. Theyovercome and life helps us to work on them. But
are the pieces of the set, the elements of historymostly it helps us to make peace with ourselves. As
that give you the opportunity to live your Soul'sonce a lesson is truly integrated, we understand the
mission.need of the journey we have traveled. Once we
In the Nordic legends, everything in Creation is bornhave integrated the lesson we can move forward on
of the encounter between fire and ice. When waterour path; we can move on. This is one of the great
mixes with fire, the energy produced is capable oftreasures that reside in the trials: they help us to not
moving mountains or moving steel vehicles weighingremain attached to things, to understand that the
several tons. In your life, every obstacle youtreasures of the Past will always be with us and that
encounter kindles the fire in you, this passion, thiswe can now move freely toward the next chapter
desire to overcome obstacles. The unconditional loveof our life.
that vibrates in you, your power of creation, the