Life is hard. Sometimes I look at other people's trials and go, I'm glad I'm not them. I wouldn't know what to do in a lot of situations. By the same token, I'm sure people look at my life and wonder how I'm still alive. I guess that just goes to show that we're given trials according to our ability. Anyone who knows me knows that I don't exactly wear my beliefs on my sleeve, but there is one thing that's really standing out to me lately. I only took one year of seminary, and I was a horrible student, but one thing stuck with me.
1 Corinthians 10:13
There hath no temptation taken you but such as is common to man: but God is faithful, who will not suffer you to be tempted above that ye are able; but will with the temptation also make a way to escape, that ye may be able to bear it.
I get reminded of that verse every time I face something that I don't think I can handle. And, inevitably, I always end up being just fine somehow. I can't even stay knocked down for long because I have this persistent nagging in the back of my head that I need to get up and just keep moving forward.
I have times when I want to stay on my bottom and scream, "It's not fair! Nothing is fair!" But I can't, because it would be a lie. My grandpa always told my mom, "Life is fair; life is terribly fair." There's this profound truth that will always be the answer anytime anyone in my family complains. I want to stomp my feet that I don't have nice things just handed to me, that I don't get any easy outs, that I don't get to sit around. But life is fair; I did get a loving family, a wonderful husband and a beautiful daughter. My parents never bought me everything I wanted; I got lessons in hard work and independence. I've been knocked down hard so many times; but I got to get back up even stronger than before. Life is terribly, terribly fair; and I couldn't be more grateful for that.
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