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<blockquote data-quote="New Leaf" data-source="post: 681548" data-attributes="member: 19522"><p><img src="http://img.allw.mn/content/ox/nv/beeu234x.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /></p><p></p><p>Let go and let God. When we hold on so tightly to an outcome we have no control over, it can send us into despair.</p><p></p><p>When we hit this bottomless pit, there is no way out but UP.</p><p></p><p>Then we can look for examples in human history, mentors who left an indelible notch in history's timeline of overcoming impossible sufferings. This is not to lessen what you are feeling Dufster, for it is every mothers hope that our children will live peaceably, maintaining familial bonds. The end of the story has not been written as yet. The origin of despair, the meaning translates to <em>without hope. </em></p><p><em></em></p><p><em>There is always hope.</em> People throughout time have risen over incredible suffering. Their examples can help us, they become our mentors.......</p><p></p><p>I have found such a mentor in Viktor Frankl</p><p></p><p>"Viktor Frankl experienced some of the worst pain and suffering ever inflicted by one group of human beings on another. For three years, Frankl was a prisoner in Auschwitz and several other Nazi concentration camps. Everything he possessed was taken from him. His beloved wife and most of the rest of his family died in the camps. Even the manuscript for his first book on psychotherapy was lost. He had nothing left but his body and his mind.</p><p></p><p>During those years he experienced imprisonment, starvation, bitter cold, forced labor from dawn till dusk, sickness, disease, and the constant presence of death for one prisoner after another.</p><p></p><p>In such an atmosphere, the most natural thing to do was to succumb to hopelessness, despair, and death.</p><p></p><p>And yet, Frankl found meaning in the midst of that suffering. He came to realize that as horrible as their situation was, something greater than all that pain and suffering was present in those camps.</p><p></p><p>It was the greatness of the human spirit, which can make the decision to rise above pain and suffering, and live for greater goals even when death seems inevitable.</p><p></p><p>In fact, Frankl came out of the camps believing even more strongly than when he went in that one of the distinguishing characteristics of human beings is that rather than being determined by our environment as are the lower animals, we humans can act from higher qualities of love, rationality, understanding, and compassion even when we see little or none of it around us.</p><p></p><p>And that is what saved Frankl himself.</p><p></p><p>Rather than succumbing to hopelessness and despair as so many of his fellow prisoners did, Frankl devoted his efforts to helping his fellow prisoners find some meaning and purpose in their lives . . . some reason to continue forward, and to live. And though many of them died anyway, their lives up to their deaths became a testament of the human spirit’s ability to live for higher purposes even in the midst of the worst pain and suffering imaginable.</p><p></p><p>That is the great message and the profound beauty of Frankl’s best-known book, <em>“<a href="http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/080701429X/ncmi-20/ref=nosim" target="_blank">Man’s Search for Meaning</a>.”</em></p><p></p><p>taken from <a href="http://leewoof.org/2013/11/25/viktor-frankl-on-meaning-in-the-midst-of-suffering/" target="_blank">http://leewoof.org/2013/11/25/viktor-frankl-on-meaning-in-the-midst-of-suffering/</a></p><p></p><p>I pray for your peace of mind and heart.</p><p></p><p>One day, one step at a time.</p><p></p><p>You are not alone.</p><p></p><p>(((HUGS)))</p><p>leafy</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="New Leaf, post: 681548, member: 19522"] [IMG]http://img.allw.mn/content/ox/nv/beeu234x.jpg[/IMG] Let go and let God. When we hold on so tightly to an outcome we have no control over, it can send us into despair. When we hit this bottomless pit, there is no way out but UP. Then we can look for examples in human history, mentors who left an indelible notch in history's timeline of overcoming impossible sufferings. This is not to lessen what you are feeling Dufster, for it is every mothers hope that our children will live peaceably, maintaining familial bonds. The end of the story has not been written as yet. The origin of despair, the meaning translates to [I]without hope. There is always hope.[/I] People throughout time have risen over incredible suffering. Their examples can help us, they become our mentors....... I have found such a mentor in Viktor Frankl "Viktor Frankl experienced some of the worst pain and suffering ever inflicted by one group of human beings on another. For three years, Frankl was a prisoner in Auschwitz and several other Nazi concentration camps. Everything he possessed was taken from him. His beloved wife and most of the rest of his family died in the camps. Even the manuscript for his first book on psychotherapy was lost. He had nothing left but his body and his mind. During those years he experienced imprisonment, starvation, bitter cold, forced labor from dawn till dusk, sickness, disease, and the constant presence of death for one prisoner after another. In such an atmosphere, the most natural thing to do was to succumb to hopelessness, despair, and death. And yet, Frankl found meaning in the midst of that suffering. He came to realize that as horrible as their situation was, something greater than all that pain and suffering was present in those camps. It was the greatness of the human spirit, which can make the decision to rise above pain and suffering, and live for greater goals even when death seems inevitable. In fact, Frankl came out of the camps believing even more strongly than when he went in that one of the distinguishing characteristics of human beings is that rather than being determined by our environment as are the lower animals, we humans can act from higher qualities of love, rationality, understanding, and compassion even when we see little or none of it around us. And that is what saved Frankl himself. Rather than succumbing to hopelessness and despair as so many of his fellow prisoners did, Frankl devoted his efforts to helping his fellow prisoners find some meaning and purpose in their lives . . . some reason to continue forward, and to live. And though many of them died anyway, their lives up to their deaths became a testament of the human spirit’s ability to live for higher purposes even in the midst of the worst pain and suffering imaginable. That is the great message and the profound beauty of Frankl’s best-known book, [I]“[URL='http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/080701429X/ncmi-20/ref=nosim']Man’s Search for Meaning[/URL].”[/I] taken from [URL]http://leewoof.org/2013/11/25/viktor-frankl-on-meaning-in-the-midst-of-suffering/[/URL] I pray for your peace of mind and heart. One day, one step at a time. You are not alone. (((HUGS))) leafy [/QUOTE]
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