If your life has been hard - genuinely, relentlessly, inexplicably hard - I am not telling you that you chose this as some kind of cosmic punishment or that you should stop trying to make things better. I'm telling you that it might be by design, not your failing.

Spirit didn't say fix the world. Spirit said look at yours. What's actually in your life right now — the patterns, the people, the things you keep walking past — that's what's meant for you. Start there.