“There was an incident at school today.”

The last thing any parent wants to hear.

I started to feel my heart pounding outside of my body.

And all I wanted to do was protect my son from being scarred for life from this situation.

I was stuck on worry.

But, I got myself unSTUCK by considering, as difficult as it was to consider, that maybe this situation may strengthen my son. I considered that maybe adversity may build character.

Do you have someone in your life going through a rough patch? Can you, too, consider (maybe?) that adversity may build character – instead of staying stuck in worry, like I did?