As is so often the case with grace, you could not have gotten to where I now was from where I had been.*
Anne Lamott

The great thing, if one can, is to stop regarding all the unpleasant things as interruptions of one’s “own” or “real” life. The truth is of course that what one calls the interruptions are precisely one’s real life – the life God is sending one day by day.**
C. S. Lewis

If I’m honest, I wouldn’t
have planned to have arrived here:
What I am doing today has
a lot to do with being nudged, pushed, and
pulled by things I didn’t welcome at the time, and
I’m grateful.

*Anne Lamott’s Dusk Night Dawn;
**Oliver Burkeman’s Meditations For Mortals.