Review: Hardships? - No! - read on and discover - - -
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 03 5, 2013
Upon just completing a book on my own brand of hardships; what I learned through them and where I ended up, I discovered through the blessing of this book that there is always more insight to be gained.The text doesn't really say this in so many words but the undertone in the meaning of the text is: "Hardships are not really hardships, they are rather learning experiences."  They are not directed at us to defeat us but rather to propel us into the next level of discovery in the garden of life.The Author points the reader to: while going though the sorrow of hardships it is likely that we humans will shut out our friends and then wonder why they have went away.  The text points out that the friends are there, all waiting in the wings to support you; waiting for you to accept them, lean on them, and not shut them out.The pain and sorrow of hardships are never wasted, they are redeemed.  When Seymour lost the beauty of his life by a series of catastrophes, not of his own making, but at the same time seemed to destroy his life, his character, his will, and separate him from his friends, devastating him. The little bird didn't give up on him.  As soon as the little bird was able to convince Seymour to see his sorrows as friends to overcome, he was redeemed into a new life with new friends and even the old friends came by to again hang around.Now his beauty is not in the display of his overwhelming branches but it is in the old driftwood log that lay covered in the sand redeemed to be a center piece in the garden of new life.  The beauty is now not in the external branches but is replaced by an inner beauty.I am happy to recommend this book for the lessons learned within it's text, and through the superb gift of story telling by the Author.