Courage, take what life throws at you

If life gives you lemons, make lemonade.

I think this quote comes from Dale Carnegie What does this really mean? make good things from bad? The conversations of this last week have really challenged me. How do we face adversity?

The real issue is what do we do when things are difficult. When others destroy the trust relationships we thought had with them, where confidences were betrayed and gossip spread. I know we cannot live without hope, but I'm beginning to wonder if people can live without trust? I'm wondering whether whatever happens in a relationship we have to hold to fidelity even when we cannot trust the other. I don't trust them as far as I can throw them is another saying origin unknown. But for trust to come again it involves going back into the risky places. Something I don't like but somehow we all have to do it eventually.

The issue is when the rubber hits the road. We can theorize all we like but it is in the dirty circumstances of real life, living in an imperfect world with imperfect people, that we grow. We can still be faithful with people we don't trust.