Week 12: Becoming a Change-Maker

     This week I learned a lot. It was really good to write the book report and to be able to make a summary of what the Hero's Journey is all about. The one thing that I really like about this book is that even though they were relating it to business and being an entrepreneur, it can be really relatable to you at any stage of life. 

    You will always need to figure out who you want to become and make goals to try and get there. I really loved how it talked about building that foundation and learning yourself. Reaching out to others and gaining strong relationships with people that you trust. And then it talked about trials that you might go through. 

    My favorite part of the book was the chapter when it talked about days that are in the darkness. The days when our mindsets turn back to the perspective of a child. Dark corners are scary and a pile of clothes in the dark can look like a monster. This I found really true and very relatable. Satan has this way of making ordinary things that are great in the day time, seem like the scariest things at night. This is where we remember who we are. Where we reach out to those that we trust and that can talk us through the difficult things we are going through.

    I have seen this pattern in my life many times and I am grateful that I have those in my life who are there to talk me through what seem like very dark days. We experience things so that we can help others go through them with a little bit more direction. 

    The trials in our lives are really to humble us, to teach us and help us to change who we are for the better. They strengthen us and help us to see life in a new perspective. The main goal is also for them to do more service for those around us and to discover that we are happier when we are serving. We are more likely to fall into darkness when we are only looking at ourselves and are closed off from the world around  us.