I KEEP GETTING BETTER AND BETTER I am faith-filled and fear-free because . . . I am willing to test what I know.

Life's trials are progressive in nature.  They get bigger to make us better.  Just when you think you've got it all together, things you have never seen or heard of will present themselves in your life.  They will push you, test you and challenge you to do more growing, more learning, more of what you have already done. Very often, when this happens, we are tempted to believe that we have done something wrong or that we missed something.  Rarely do we understand that you cannot get too much of a good thing -- growing, learning, living are good things!  They are good, even when we are forced to retest our skills and abilities over and over again. Endurance reveals and strengthens character. It also builds faith.  As your faith grows, it takes more than it used to to shake you up. It takes more than it did before to make you doubt yourself.  It takes more pressure this time than it did last time or the time before that to make you consider giving up. Life always wants to be sure that you are sure! What about you?Don't you want to be sure that you can take it? Make it? Work it through until you can work it out?  Of course you do!  You want to know that you can depend on youwhen you need you.  You want to know that you have the requisite amount of faith required to sustain you at all times, at any time.  For this reason, it may seem that as you get better, the trials become greater.  The truth is, the best students always get the hardest tests because they can handle them! Until today, you may have thought that a retest in life was the result of a failure.  Just for today, be a good student of life. Trust yourself!  Rely on what you know!  Do what you did before better this time!  Be willing to take the progressive steps required to ensure the divine unfolding of your fully empowered Higher Self. Today I am devoted to knowing that I keep getting better and better as I pass through the testing situations in my life! From Until Today!   by Iyanla Vanzant