What doesn't kill you makes you stronger.

Everyone’s heard that saying. Everyone knows how true it is. But not everyone understands it the same way. Not everyone knows how true it is.
Well today I realized just how true that was for me. I never cease to hear how much I’ve been through and how much I’ve overcome in my life, and at my age. I understand I may have been through more hell than many people three times my age. At the same time, people a third my age have been through more than I have. Everyone has their own life. No two people have the same life. No two people can relate the same. No two people interpret the same. ‘What doesn’t kill you makes you stronger’…. for the next go-round. For the next, much harder life lesson. No, nothing in this world makes sense. Yes, the pain is very real, every day. But I have never been stronger. I have never been so sure. Sure, I can blame and thank my faith for all of this. But it’s me who chose to stay strong. Chose to stay sure. Sure that everything one day will make sense and that one day it will all be okay. Sure that it does get better, and that I will be strong enough to enjoy the blessings in store for me.
I really cannot put into words how I feel or what I think about anything. I can say that what doesn’t kill you, really does make you stronger. And I am realizing and experiencing what that means for me today.
And honestly, by the grace of my Lord I can fully experience this in my life right now.
And I would not have it any other way.