Abstract
What is spiritual strength? What is the edge that enables some people to withstand the most traumatic events and come through them with love, with a stronger spiritual life, to be loving, to continue to fight for the good of the world and to find meaning in their existence? Why is it that, for others, their experiences may continue a pattern of abuse? They may continue to be re-victimised or fall into destructive patterns of coping, i.e. drugs or alcohol or at least feel that the abuse has robbed them of spirit? Is this spirit for life and endurance something we can teach children or is it something innate? Does our secular society, with its multitude of faiths, but with no common creed to gel us together discourage our spirit for life? These are some of the questions we find ourselves asking.