Isaac said to God in the mid Rush I…
Isaac said to God in the mid Rush I note to that the challenge of confronting difficulties, as well as finding the faith to overcome them, will make me a better person.
— from Failure & Resilience (Challenge/Failure/Perseverance/Accountability/Flexibility/Resilience) · Hope, Not Fear by Rabbi Benjamin Blech
In the book
Hold onto the truth that pain and suffering can lead to real growth — though only if your inner narrative is in order, for the same blow can also break a person whose story about it has gone wrong. Faith helps here: as Isaac understood it, the very challenge of confronting difficulty, and finding the faith to overcome it, is what makes a person better. There is even a rhythm the most resilient follow through any change: first they anticipate — expecting difficulty before it arrives and noticing the early warning signs; then they engage, gathering themselves and weighing what it means; and then they renew, refusing to crawl back to exactly how things were and instead finding a new path forward. — Failure & Resilience (Challenge/Failure/Perseverance/Accountability/Flexibility/Resilience)