Life's Lessons

There are times when we wonder why we have to go through grief and pain in our lives. If we think about it, we have to realize that grief, pain, mistakes and heartaches are a part of life that we all experience at one time or another if we are to live on Earth.

We can't escape them if we are alive on this earth. And, if we could drop all of our troubles and never see them again, would we remember what we learned from our troubles and pain?

The Banyan tree is one of the most magnificent trees on earth. It has a huge canopy and a multitude of roots descending from its branches that reach down and give it a wonderful foundation.

If you allow them, and if you follow the flow of things, you will see that many of our tragedies end up being blessings even though we don't see why at the time.

Sometimes the choices we make in earlier years, which were right at the time, become the wrong choice later because of a number of uncontrollable forces.

They might have even been controllable forces if we had been aware of them at the time, but we weren't. It is important to realize that we did the right thing based on what we knew at the time. It wasn't a mistake.