I believe that whole heartily and anyone that says otherwise doesn't have a wife/husband to come home to, a child or children to love and take care of, a job they are responsible for or answer to a single soul on this earth in one way or another. Struggles are what make us stronger- what show us right from wrong, good from bad and love from lust. Anything made easy...is never worth what it may seem.
Life is a struggle...
Every day we are struggling to survive- struggling to reach for that alarm button and snooze for the final and fifth time that morning...struggling to get ready, dress your kids, send them to school all without miss placing a lunch or forgetting today was picture day or saying I love you before you speed of to your job. A trial to make your month end quota, outshine that peer striving for the same promotion as you- the one you know could "make your life so much easier".
Love, is a struggle...
One of the first an most important things anyone can teach you about love, is that its a struggle. Whether its to love your best friend unconditionally, your children as they disrupt Sunday service with screams of "he did it!, NO she did it!?!", your husband as he works late into the night, coming home with out even a hello or goodnight marching his worn tired body into bed after the shower he's spent more time with that week than you. Love is forever a struggle....but if it wasn't- would you want it? Would you work so hard and put in so much just for- like?
Health is a struggle...
If you just sit for a moment one day, and realize all that goes into you just being able to sit...to do one solitary thing- you will then realize your faith in God. Running, and playing, walking, sitting, eating, kissing, hugging- so many struggle and fight for their lives everyday, in one way or another. Your heart struggles to beat blood to your entire body as you stretch its limits, testing it to its very core-when others...don't have a heartbeat at all. Life is so fragile and yet so many take it for vantage. There are so many wonderful people in this world, with loving hearts and helping hands who die, who's love ones parish from the incautious mind of a drunk drive, who's children never had a fighting chance to survive their "high risk" pregnancies, or their traumatic births. Health and life, should never be taken lightly.
Appreciation is a struggle...
Being happy with what you have, finding joy in the end of every day that brings new beginning to the next, is a struggle. Saying thank you when it's needed, sending cards that you know can brighten a day or even a moment. Holding hands and falling in love, the miracle birth and lives of your children- whether through your body or another, your beauty inside and out, even when we have bad days we should try to find a way to appreciate the fact that we can feel that emotion...that as bad as it may seem at that very moment, there is always potential that life could be so much better, and yet so much worse as well.
Faith is a struggle...
To believe in God, you could say is easy...but to have faith in God will try your very soul. I don't believe anyone can truly appreciate or love God unconditionally with words from a book or songs from a hymn. Love and faith come hand in hand- to love something, you have to have a personal connection. An experience that makes your eyes open and your heart wonder...but, everyday God gives you that opportunity. He shows you greed, he shows you hate and war and sorrow and then...he shows light, and hope, and life, breathing, and growing...he opens your eyes to new and amazing things that only he can provide for you. YOU are alive because of HIM...because of his struggle, his sacrifice....his appreciation for the human race...
So, in the end....whats not worth a little struggle??
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