Something to ponder

 Do not pray for easy lives!

Pray to be strong men.

Do not pray for tasks equal to your powers.

Pray for powers equal to your tasks.

Then the doing of your work shall be no miracle,

but you shall be a miracle.

~Phillips Brooks

 Greatness comes not by having a mossy path made for you

through the meadows, but by being sent to hew out a roadway

by your own hands.

 I read that excerpt today and it really caused me to just sit and ponder.

How many times have I been envious of others who seem to live a bed of roses.

To me it seems as if everything in life has been handed to them.

I am truly happy for them, but sometimes I wonder...

Why can't my life be like that?

I am not saying this to complain about my life, because I love life...

God is truly so very good to me.

However after reading this I was convicted of listening to the Devil 

and feeling sorry for myself at times.

Convicted of wishing for things that are not necessarily bad,

but are not what God would have for me at this time in life.

And then it hit me...

The reason God does not give me a life of miracles and perfection is because He is working the miracle through me, rather than around me.

I do not want others to wish for my life, but rather to wish for my faith.

I want to live so that others see the miracle living in me.

 The easy life does not lead to greatness of character.

And so I prayed today - not for a bed of roses but rather

the character to rise to whatever God may bring may way.

 

Two roads diverged in a yellow wood, and I -

I took the one less traveled by,

And that has made all the difference.

~Robert Frost

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