How to Make Life’s Challenges Count for Something Good
“Life shrinks and expands in proportion to one’s courage.” ~Anais Nin
Many people have told me that I am a brave person. Mostly though, I think I just play the cards I’m dealt.
When I was twenty-one years old, I had a stroke. In a single moment, everything I had ever taken for granted about my health and about my youth flew right out the window. I felt truly vulnerable for the first time in my young life and it scared the bejesus out of me.
Following a full recovery, that fear quickly turned into intense bitterness and anger that …