Life Wasn't Meant To Be Easy - With Courage It's A Delight!

Former Aussie Prime Minister, Malcolm Fraser (1975-1983) was famously quoted for quoting Saint George Claude Bernard Shaw's, "Life wasn't meant to be easy, my child, but take courage: it can be delightful!" It is rather unfortunate that Fraser only used the first line, which have a rather unsympathetic and difficult feel to it. Shaw's quote, from his book, Back to Methuselah, is transformed by the 2nd sentence. Fraser was to be quite roundly, and perhaps unfairly, criticised for the "snobby" sentiment with which the remark was couched.

I remember first hearing Fraser's quotation mark used by my mother. And she used it often. Or even it was often adequate as a response to any reaction either myself or my sibs had to the 'rough justice' (skewed perceptual experience of the child) of upbringing. "Such is life," as Uncle Tom Wilkie Collins also famously said.

Yet this difficult phrase is a truism. Life was never ever meant to be easy. It isn't easy for anyone. Each 1 of us have to suffer; some endure more than than others do, of course. Some endure greatly because of the life picks they make, and some endure greatly just by virtuousness of the life state of affairs with which they've been placed. In other words, for the latter, it's not their fault.

Life is about fictional character growth. It's about faith. One who have no religion is jump to endure more. One who have tons of religion will still suffer. In fact, the 1 with religion (who will incidentally also have got courage, as religion and courageousness are synonymous) will be unfastened to much more than agony in reality, though their religion covers much of it and it appears they endure less. They simply have got a better manner of coping with the trials of life.

Life was never meant to be easy... and don't bury the 2nd bit. But take courage: it can be delightful. This is surely a marvellous disclosure for anyone who can acknowledge that life: is designed to be hard, to necessitate faith, and courage, because aid is near, for in the words of the oracle "Every vale shall be raised up, every mountain and hill made low; the unsmooth land shall go level, the rugged topographic points a plain." (Isaiah 40:4) When we do a straight path for the Godhead in our lives, he come ups and do things easier... not easy, just easier. The problem is, for the individual who doesn't believe in God, it necessitates even a mustard seed of religion to 'give it a try.' (Many can't hazard their pridefulness for the humbleness required to give Supreme Being the minutes he necessitates to do the difference in their life. A challenge: give him one existent month. One existent calendar month where you courageously manus your life to him.)

Life will never be easy. It is only designed to be easy when we have got been given religious rite of transition into the adjacent dimension: the ultimate dimension.

What makes it state to us now then? Perhaps a good manner to look at it is this. 'If life is not easy for me, how difficult is it for the mediocre unfortunate who have it even tougher than me?' It is a great approval in life to cognize that there are literally billions of others on this earth, who for a countless of reasons, are lovelorn of the comfortableness we ourselves dwell in every day. It is not a great approval that others travel without, but it is a great approval that we might have got much in comparison.

Truly the most fantastic thing on Earth is to assist person less fortunate than ourselves. This have nil to make with stuff wealth. Some people are obscenely rich, yet spiritually they're very poor. A Negro spiritual individual can assist this kind person; they are less fortunate. To assist person is to know God's blessing: his peace and contentment, his grace, his provision.

Smile. Life wasn't meant to be easy. Can you look into a mirror when the going is tough and smiling and laugh? Things could be worse! Look around you. Look at what you have: your senses, your sense of humour, your ability to walk, talking etc. Now, this is making a leaping premise that you have got got these things. I would apologise profusely, for instance, if you read this, but could not walk! Or could not talk! Or could not laugh, smell, see, hear, taste sensation or touch!

Life wasn't meant to be easy, but in truth, and proving Supreme Being faithful, it can be delicious for the brave individual in each 1 of us.

Take courageousness and expression on the bright side.

© Steve J. Wickham, 2008. All rights reserved Worldwide.