What is required of us is that we love the difficult and learn to deal with it. In the difficult are the friendly forces, the hands that work on us. Right in the difficult we must have our joys, our happiness, our dreams: there against the depth of this background, they stand out, there for the first time we see how beautiful they are.”
— Rainer Maria Rilke
Given the choice, would you rather turn the cheek or strike back? Given the choice would you rather work for what you have, or have it all given to you? Take someone else’s flat screen TV, or work for your own? Would you rather take up a cross, or wear a crown?
Can we wear the crown without taking up our cross? The two a day practices for the football team is what makes game night so rewarding. The studying and working to fix a car yourself makes the driving of it all the more joyful. The rehab after surgery makes me appreciate that shoulder in ways that I never did before. The sacrifices that one makes for their family sets the stage for great moments later.
Life. It is good. All of it. The hard parts and the good parts. It is all one big beautiful canvas that God gives us to paint on.
It’s a beautiful day in God’s world, be sure to see the good.
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