Life is beautiful, but it is oh, so heavy. There is nothing that exists in this world
more wonderful that is so incredibly hard to bear. Every school year I inevitably reach a point
where I just feel weary. Usually, it
hits me sometime around February, but this year it hit me within a month of
being back on campus. I feel like the
man from those old Geico commercials who pulled a cord hanging from the ceiling
and had a millstone fall on his head. This
early on into the school year and I’m already finding myself wishing that Life
Alert made a version of their handy buttons for my life. All I would have to do when the weight of the
world brings me to my knees is press a button and moan the classic line, “Help,
I’ve fallen and I can’t get up!”
But I don’t write this particular blog post to complain
about my lot in life, rather, hopefully, as an encouragement to those who
are going through circumstances much harder than my own. You see, my own exhaustion as well as a TED
Talk I watched tonight about light and darkness, started me thinking about how
the Lord has used the various trials in my life not to break me down, but
rather to build me up.
Now it would be easy for me to say my last sentence if I had
not ever experienced any real hardship
in my life, but from the age of three, God has brought into my life a number of
defining trials. I most certainly cannot
claim that the life I have lived has been an easy one, but I can say with the
utmost confidence that it is a good one.
During the various hardships of my life, God has taught me a few things
which I would like to share with you in this blog post.
