If I know one thing for certain, I know that no matter how hard any trial has ever been in my life each one has specifically allowed for me to both grow and discover a newfound confidence in myself that wasn’t there before. You most likely can relate to this being that everybody has been hurt in some type of way.

You always hear those sayings, “I know that this happened for a reason" or even "Everything has a reason, this one will figure itself out like the rest of them did.”

When we experience that sense of hurt our first instinct is to make sense of the situation. We begin to believe that if we just knew the reason behind it all that somehow we wouldn’t be so upset over the situation.

But in all things honest, I really don’t know if there is a reason for our suffering. I don’t know if we will ever understand why we experience a true sense of pain that invades us entirely. But rather than perplexing ourselves of the knowledge and reason of our hurt, what if we examined the purpose of it and the very thing that this hurt will lead us to?

Reason wants to know why, but purpose realizes that there is an aim at longing for discovery.

When we long for an understanding of a situation, we are often left empty-handed, frustrated, and really just confused as to what is going on. Yet, when we long for a purpose of the situation then we believe that because of our pain we will soon reap the goodness of the lesson it taught us.

The importance of a purpose is often mistaken for merely forgetting the pain. No, the importance of a purpose is trusting that when the other side of the mountain finally gets near that you grew, that you experienced a new side of yourself, that you got the privilege to invest and realize moments in your life that were worthy of change.

Really gaining a sense of yourself exceeds far past merely just understanding the reason in which something occurred. An explanation (a reason) can only do so much for you, okay so maybe it will help you to know why something happened, okay so maybe it will let you in on a secret you wondered, okay so maybe it allowed you understand the situation better.

But did your reason that you so longed to know actually help you to progress?

Did merely knowing the reason that something happened help you to believe that it was good and that it challenged you for the better?

Did your reason let you see that you didn’t need to know that information and that you would still be okay without it?

Or did you let the invasion of pain become so overwhelming that you merely wanted to understand it so bad that you never gave it a chance to change you?

Why would you simply ignore something that is just waiting to advance you further into the person you are designed to be? You can’t ignore that purpose that so wants to be discovered, that purpose that is waiting on you to call its name so that you can finally be okay and mean it when you tell somebody:

“Yes, everything did work out…but it worked out for the best, and I believed it from the very beginning.”