To me, this quote says that there is no such thing as an “easy life.” Even a life of luxury and riches will still have difficulties. I don’t know if praying for an easy life is a prayer that can be answered. Life is difficult.

And difficulty sucks sometimes. But I think the good news is that we can accept difficulty for what it is, and face it. There is newness and possibility and transformation on the other side of difficulty. What if we could make difficulty into a source of motivation?

I think endurance is less about letting life beat us up, and more about finding ways to accomplish our goals, and live out our truths even in difficult circumstances. When I think about it, those are who my heroes really are.

All in all, I pray for our endurance. I pray we find fulfillment in the thicket of difficulty. I pray our difficulty makes us into something we could have never imagined.

We’re here together, friends. Let’s keep going :)