Who Doesn't Have Issues?

Your parents are over protective and over bearing, you've been ridiculed, laughed at, misunderstood. You were molested by a close family member. Your father wasn't around, or if he was he was an alcoholic. You live paycheck to paycheck. Your mother made you feel like you were never good enough. You been cheated on, battered, at times fighting for your life. You're searching for what you do not understand, have never felt and have never heard. You chase money but can never have it. You're a loner, an introvert, you'd rather live in a world all by yourself, then let someone love you....

We all have issues, which one you subscribe to is the only thing that makes you different from the next person. The tie that binds each individual in this world is that there is something that each of us is struggling with. Whether its' financial wealth, spiritual growth, or a release from the heartaches of the past, we each aim to live better lives. We all aim to be these "self-actualized" individuals who are trying to become our better selves.

If I went through life thinking I was the only one struggling it would be real dark and lonely, but I have the comfort of knowing that each person has their own cross to bear, and mine is no more significant than yours. What we can do is help each other to make the weight bearing a little easier. What is your weakness may be someone else's strength. We have all heard the idea that God never gives you more than you can handle. It is true, he supplies you with the tools you just have to learn how to use them and once you master that your struggle becomes less weighty.