Life Lessons from Storyline – Part Two

You guys. Storyline. Such goodness was shared. So let’s get right to it…

Life Lessons – Part Two:

1. Pain is universal in a fallen world. It is not special to us. What we DO with it is special.
2. We cannot overlook our own pain in life. Instead we should ask, what blessings can pain produce? How can it help the world?
3. In most cases, there is pain – a lot of it – in the back story of the most influential people in the world.
4. We all have some victim in us, but the key is to not stay there. Staying in the role of the victim ends our story.
5. Victimhood gives us an excuse not to try.
6. The best thing you can do with your pain, once you’ve got some distance from it, is to redeem it. Don’t let it keep you down.
7. Reflect on your pain. Resolve it. Redeem it. This is the beginning to rewriting your story.
8. Just like stories in books or movies, our own life story has characters – such as a hero and a villain. Which would you rather be, in your own life story? The hero who redeems their pain or the villain who seeks vengeance for it?
9. A hero always has a history of pain and self doubt.
10. There’s never been a hero in a story that self identifies as a victim, even if they were one.

Redefining your pain and your place within it. It can be simply transformational. I don’t want to be stuck in victimhood. I don’t want to be a villain.

So now what, right?

I’m going to take some time writing down and reflecting on the pain points in my life. As I review each one, I’m going to ask myself what came of it? What did I learn? What blessings were bestowed because of it? How can it help others? How can it help change the world?

Because remember #4? I don’t want my story to end, I feel like it’s just beginning.