The Law of Life
By Linda Weaver Clarke

There is a Law of Life that relates to everyone. This law is something we have no control over, but if we knew the importance of this law, we would accept it more readily. Most laws seem to be for our own good, to protect our rights and our safety. This Law of Life works a little differently. It works at our inner soul, our inner strength, and the goodness within us. It creates the person we should be.

The Law of Life causes us to struggle, to fight for our survival, but we have to look beyond our troubles and stumbling blocks. Every time we fall, we must get back on our feet and start again. Life was not meant to be easy. If it were, then we would never grow and become a better person.

Monte J. Brough said, “Many of the most important principles of intelligence cannot be taught at universities, from books, or through other temporal learning processes. Often these great principles are learned from afflictions, tribulations, and other mortal experiences.”

A wise poet once wrote:

The tree that never had to fight

For sun and sky and air and light,

But stood out on the open plain

And always got it’s share of rain,

Never became a forest king

But lived and died a scrubby thing.

The man who never had to toil

To gain and farm his patch of soil,

Who never had to win his share

Of sun and sky and light and air,

Never became a manly man

But lived and died as he began. –anonymous