Do you struggle with rejection, bitterness, strife?

Everyday, it is not what I struggle with, it is how do I let this struggle, rejection, bitterness, strife or thing(s) that aggrivate my life. Do I let them control me, push me to where it move me and to what degree it would force me? It would if I gave it free reign, to do so. In doing so it only shows that I am the weaker because of it, and not the master of it; yet even in trying to master it, does it change my outlook, does it change my attitudes towards others, does it make me act differently than what I should, then it has power over me. No in all these things, I use them to stregnthen my resolve. I use them to increase my love towards one another. I use them to sharpen my mercy and compion and give me endurance over these things. These things will always be here until Christ comes again creates all things new. They are then things that are along the journey, neither problems or prizes they are just signposts that I know I have a little more way to go to travel further till all is finished and the race is run and won in the Name of Him who sustains me through them all - Jesus Christ - the Living One Who Sees!