Tag Archives: life’s challenges

Soulbyte for Thursday April 17, 2025

-Artwork © 2025 Jan Ketchel

Under the best of circumstances life would unfold without worry, you might say, but that is not the best of circumstances at all. That would be a life of no consequence, no challenge and thus no growth. Challenges offer growth spurts. When difficulties arise, it is far better to face them than to avoid them, for they are like doors opening to something new, stairways to something better, pathways to new life. Challenges and difficulties in life are the opportunities to grow, to change, and to embrace something new and exciting. All change comes out of such opportunities, at first seen as annoying interruptions but soon seen as just the right thing at the right time.

Sending you love,
The Soul Sisters, Jan & Jeanne

Soulbyte for Friday May 26, 2023

-Illustration © 2023 Jan Ketchel

With persistent intent your new path will begin to reveal itself more fully. Continuous focus upon the path of choice, making decisions in alignment with it, and effort in the direction of change slowly lead to new life. Just because you took one step does not make it easier to take the second, but persistence will produce good rewards. Stick with it and allow that spark of light within you to grow a little brighter with each new step you take.

Sending you love,
The Soul Sisters, Jan & Jeanne

Soulbyte for Thursday April 27, 2023

-Illustration © 2023 Jan Ketchel

What have you learned about yourself? Every day is an opportunity to learn something new about the self and to advance a little more along your path to wholeness. And what is wholeness? It is the completion of the journey you set out upon when you decided to enter into life as the person you are. Your decision included many challenges. To complete your life and attain your wholeness is to meet those many challenges and advance yourself on the journey of your greater Soul self, the self that decided to embark upon life and take up those challenges. What challenges do you have before you today? Begin there. Simply be open to accepting what comes. It‘s always a good day to be challenged!

Sending you love,
The Soul Sisters, Jan & Jeanne

Soulbyte for Tuesday March 21, 2023

-Illustration © 2023 Jan Ketchel

Times of great change that come unbidden yet seem well-timed, offer the opportunity to shift away from old patterns and behaviors. They offer the opportunity to begin life anew. Every leaving is a new beginning. Every break with something old is the start of something new. Do not mourn endings too much but look forward to what is to come. For surely you can count on life to continue to guide you forward in a new direction even as it guides you to halt progress in a direction that no longer serves you. It just means it’s time to head along a new and better path.

Sending you love,
The Soul Sisters, Jan & Jeanne

Soulbyte for Friday March 3, 2023

-Illustration © 2023 Jan Ketchel

Take full responsibility for the self, for what you think, say and do, for how you choose to act in the world and how you take care of yourself. No one else can take care of you, guide you or show you the correct path if you have not done work on yourself and are prepared to take over your life. Childhood is a time of structure and guidance to teach you how to take over in adulthood. Some children are neglected or abused and not well supported while others are showered with gifts. Your beginning matters only in what you do with it. Either it catapults you or stagnates you, but even that is up to you. Do you see the glory in every deed done for and against you, and the grand opportunity being offered to take over your own growth and progress? Ah, life! Isn’t it grand?

Sending you love,
The Soul Sisters, Jan & Jeanne