Nothing happens to anybody which he is not fitted by nature to bear. — Meditations, Book V
My Take – Once, during the worst crisis our little family has had to endure, Irish Woman quipped that the Lord never gives you anything you can’t handle. I didn’t believe her at the time, but we endured, we healed, and we have since thrived. When the worst happens to you, you have to remember that you really do have the strength to survive it. Maybe you won’t come through it unscathed, but you can come through it, if only to look at your end with your head high and with peace in your soul.
DaddyBear’s Den 
Auntie J
/ July 24, 2012There have been days in the last 4+ years when I’ve been sure I wouldn’t make it to the next minute, and I’ve shouted at God as a result. (And yet, I’m still here. I don’t think the Almighty is afraid of honest emotion.) Seriously, just ’cause I liked that book where the childless couple suddenly took in five kids who needed someone doesn’t mean I meant you should use that as a blueprint for my life!
I wouldn’t trade my kids for the world. It’s been a heckuva ride, and there are parts of it you couldn’t pay me enough to relive, but if it meant keeping my kids safe, I would do it all again.
I’d just buy stock in Puffs first.
For me, I look at the bible verse that Irish Woman refers to in that statement, and I remind myself that it’s not so much that God won’t give me anything I’m unable to handle *by myself.* He won’t give me anything that he and I can’t handle *together*, usually with him bearing the brunt of the load.
Thank goodness.
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