(A recent significant Facebook exchange)
“Sometimes life knocks you on your ass… get up, get up, get up!!! Happiness is not the absence of problems, it’s the ability to deal with them.”
Steve Maraboli, Life, the Truth, and Being Free
Steve Maraboli, Life, the Truth, and Being Free
Joel Ibrahim Kreps That sounds too much like American hubris to me.You have to understand that it is God that is knocking you on your -ss.And it’s not all about you and your will,Steve. Being knocked down is purposeful .It’s a teaching moment.And the first lesson, that Steve totally misses here, is that he is not in charge! Once you get that,not easy for arrogant Westerners bred on the omnipotence of Science and Personal will, you have taken a huge step.Alhumdulillah.
Joel Ibrahim Kreps The second lesson has to do with one’s proper relationship to the Omnipotent One who is in charge.I’ll leave it at that for now.
Huhaqqaq! Definitely! Yes we can try really hard to work on our nafs to be contented with the divine decree but that is not what is implied here…this could easily be another example of ‘blame the victim’.
Lets not forget that awful things happen to really good people and we do not have the option to be happy because it is devastating and heartbreaking and very painful to surrender our hopes and dreams and loved ones. There are many problems that cannot be ‘dealt with’ they just have to be accepted..