Your moment of truth

WE ALL HAVE THEM. THOSE MOMENTS THAT FUNDAMENTALLY CHANGE US.

We may not always recognize them as they're happening, but we look back and they are crystal clear--the turning points that shape our lives, alter our direction, offer us a deeper understanding of who we are or want to become. Moments of truth often come in the guise of a challenge or even a crisis; an experience that threatens to topple us rather than teach us.

Sometimes no great strife is involved at all. Revelation comes in all forms. But the result is always the same. We are molded by specific events and experiences. Their duration can be brief, but their impact is everlasting. The lessons they teach help and heal us. They provide answers to questions we may not have even known we had. They liberate us.

Sharing these lessons, and our memories of the events that produced them, reminds us that we all ultimately face the same basic truths--that life is short and we each have our own path to travel; that success is relative and commitment to something other than oneself and one’s bank account is imperative; that one’s journey is not defined by one’s talents or gifts, but by one’s choices; and that at the end of the day, each of us alone will have to live with those choices--good and bad.

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