“That was easy,” the red easy button’s mechanical voice intoned.
And that is how we want life – easy.
That is why articles titled 25 Great Life Hacks continually make their rounds in cyberspace.
We all want the easy way:
- the easy way to lose weight
- the easy way to finance furniture with no money down
- the easy way to raise children
- the easy life
We all have a list too – an It Would Be Easier If list.
It would be easier if:
- My kids would get along.
- My kids would obey the first time every time.
- My husband would agree with me.
- My dogs would stop barking.
But life without the headaches of sibling arguments, child discipline, or spousal discussions is life without so many blessings.
When we focus on easier we miss the blessings of the day – the challenge of learning how to encourage sibling relationships, the heart-wrenching duty of guiding, molding, and shaping children, and the refining passion of married life.
Easier isn’t always better.
Fleeing the messy difficult things in life may feel easier, but you will be left empty.
It takes courage to stand and fight for your family, your marriage, and your kids. It takes humility to fall to your knees day by day and cry out to God that you can’t do it. It takes perseverance and God’s strength to get up out of bed every day when life would be easier if…
Moms, we will never have it perfect or easy. Oh, but we will be blessed, if only we cling to “Him who is able to do immeasurable more than all we ask or imagine according to His power that is at work within us.” (Ephesians 3:20 NIV)
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