"Never pray for an easier life-pray to be a stronger person! Never pray for tasks equal to your power-pray for power equal to your tasks. Then doing your work will be no miracle-you will be the miracle."-Phillips Brooks.
I've thought about this often. I think I now really get it that tough times can produce tough people. An easy existence, in my case anyway, could not have opened my eyes to the truly important things of life to the degree that the challenges have, and I am ever so grateful for the lessons learned.
BC, my natural tendencies were to consistently seek the easy way, the painless way, of "doing life." Only when all my own choices were taken away and stored for a season by God did I find the courage to forge ahead, trusting always, not sometimes, in Him for direction.
I sense that the gift of making life choices is gradually being returned to me, and now I trust that my choices will come from a more solid foundation. I want to be pleasing to God. He did His part and my prayer is that I have been a good student. I don't think I'll be actively begging Him for more challenges any time soon, but if they come, I am more prepared for them than I was nearly a year ago. In about forty-eight hours I'll find out whether or not that last statement has any merit😊
"Be men of courage; be strong."-1 Corinthians 16:13.
On the health front:
Sitting outside in the cool pines, how could anything be wrong?
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