This weekend I was told I could ask for a healing blessing.
I could ask for strength, courage, etc…

I pondered what I felt I most needed.

Strength? I have that, I just need to know where to apply it and to be willing to use it.

Serenity? I am working on that and on my way. (hey, I even bought a car and called it Serenity).

Courage? I have that and have been using it. Same thing applies, knowing when and having the will to do it.

Will? This follows my experiences. If I feel that I should do something, I have the will to do it and see it through. If I don’t feel it, then the will is weak. Having more Will could mean doing things I shouldn’t be doing.

Guidance? I have been asking for this but told I can’t have what I have been asking for. I think I have figured out that I have been asking for the wrong thing, wrong flavor, and am still working out on what I really need and what I can expect to get. Not time to ask for this again, not until I get that difference ironed out.

Ability to see? See what I should do/shouldn’t do. Discernment? This is pretty good, maybe I will go with this. I am slowly learning these lessons.

Then I thought of Resilience. I am not even sure of exactly what this word means but have the idea it means bouncing back after taking hits. I could use this in spades. I am putting myself in places where I am getting hammered on to learn something. I am not taking an easy road because what I want to learn isn’t on that one. I am scared of getting hurt bad enough that I will quit. Having the resilience to take the blows, find out which is good stuff and which is bad and keep going back for more. That is something I could really use.

I got my blessing for Resilience and it mattered to me. They even threw in Courage and that is useful too.

This morning I looked up the “official” definition for Resilience:

re.sil.ience ( P ) Pronunciation Key (r-zlyns)n.

1)The ability to recover quickly from illness, change, or misfortune; buoyancy.
2) The property of a material that enables it to resume its original shape or position after being bent, stretched, or compressed; elasticity.

Yup, that is exactly the quality I need right now.