Challenge or a GIFT

I have long known that challenges are an opportunity for growth. Heard endlessly that you have to look for the GIFT in the challenge. It all sounds really great when things are going smoothly in your life. It is fantastic in principle and you really fool yourself that when a challenge will arise you will be able to find the GIFT in it. But come a challenge and you find yourself unravelling, getting back into the Why Me mode, looking for people and situations to blame, and very rarely will you even think that there is a GIFT hidden in that challenge that you are facing.
I like to think about a challenge like a TEST or an EXAM. It reminds me of my student days. GOD or the Universe or Spirit or Higher Power, whatever you may call it is the Teacher. So go back to your student days. When your Teacher set the Question Paper, he or she also created a Model Answer Paper, which he or she had kept away in a safe place. When we are in the middle of a challenge we feel so overwhelmed, as though we have to figure out a solution all on our own. And we forget that there is a perfect SOLUTION which already exists. All that we have to do is to pull it in. So what then is the process of pulling in the SOLUTION? Its very simple really. As with everything else, the first step is always to create PEACE over the situation. And this comes about by INTENT. Can you stand in the situation, however bad it may seem, it may be the pits of despair, but can you stand in the situation and say- IT IS WELL WITH MY SOUL. I keep repeating this in my mind like a chant and sometimes in a few minutes or hours or maybe even a couple of days I start to feel this inner peace. The situation does not seem to have an emotional charge to it anymore. Externally nothing would have changed , but inside there is a knowing that the solution is at hand, that I have help here, that I don't have to bear the burden alone anymore. And then once I am truly immersed in this PEACE, I will then pull in the PERFECT Solution to the issue which already exists. I feel , sense, imagine or think about pulling in this PERFECT SOLUTION. And I trust and then I wait and expect this SOLUTION to manifest. We live in a 3D reality, and there is always a time lag between our intent and the manifestation of this intent. Divinity has its own time frame and the SOLUTION will always manifest at a perfect time. And the last step is to let go of all expectations about how you want the solution to manifest. I have always found that the solution is much grander and so much more than anything I could have created on my own.