Every disappointment holds within it a gift. Feel the disappointment keenly. This is how you truly know there is a gift, for it is by contrast that you learn. If you do not like the way disappointment feels, this very discomfort causes you to ask, “What is the gift in this?” It spurs you to look around and within. It helps you to notice when the gift arrives, and trust us, you will know. It will come wrapped in the awareness that you would not have realized how you have gained because of the disappointment without it. Do you see how you learn and grow when you are aware? Instead of “woe is me” you earn the gift of “I am free!”

You are so very loved.