Crucibles

You may have been through a crucible experience, a gut-wrenching, even humiliating experience.  It may be a business or professional failure, or it may be a health or family challenge.  Whatever it is, the course of your life has forever been changed.  You have faced the fork in the road: whether to wallow in the pain of your crucible experience or to try to move beyond it. You have chosen to move ahead.

A crucible is a cauldron where metals are thrown together and heated to very high temperatures.  The metals combine to form an alloy, something that is different than it was before.  A crucible experience is one that is life-altering.  Who you are after your crucible experience is different than you were before. You are never the same.