The Painter of our life

Assalamu Alikom.

I don't know where to start... 

Honestly, my mind is full of words, but they can't seem to find their way out. 

I've started to realize how life has it's ways of leaving little print on our being, after we've gone through an ordeal. Prints such as a change of personality, or an added quality, or a lost one. 

Ordeals... They are indeed strange things. They may hurt, and bring you down. They can be a cause of sorrow and grief, yet somehow they end up becoming so beautiful. 

I described the ordeal as a Painting where Allah swt is the Painter. When you stand too close to the painting, you are not able to see what it resembles. You are not able to see what it means, nor what it looks like as a whole. All you understand is that one color which your close up distance, allows you to see.

Perhaps it is a black color, and you think it resembles death while it was only there to create a beautiful dimension of life. Perhaps it is a gray color and you think it resembles dust, but it is merely a beautiful garden stone . Perhaps it is a brown color and you think it paints a grave while it resembles a beautiful tree .. 

When you finally take a step back, you are able to see the the entire painting. You are able to see the entire picture, and by taking a step back you are able to understand the purposes of each and every color. And each and every stroke. 

You are able to understand what the painter wanted to deliver when he used the brown color, the black color, and the yellow color. 

Suddenly it all makes sense.. 

How is that related to ordeals? 

Well, throughout life's experiences I've slowly came to realize that every ordeal was connected to something in life. If we did not go through THAT ordeal, we would never have been able to cope with certain other things in life. 

The problem is that while we are going through that ordeal, all we see is a close up of it. We do not see the meaning of it, and we do not see what it resembles.. Until some time passes.. That is the distance... Which allows us to understand the patter of that ordeal.. 

Trust my dears... It's all about the trust in the Painter of our lives.. 

Alhamdulillah..