"Life is Hard, and then you die"

Kind of a funny, depressing, odd quote. When someone says it you wonder if you should laugh or cry. Our pastor said it at the end of a message a few weeks ago. We kinda laughed, but we also realized that he's right. Now there are season's of life where everything is great and life seems easy. But we all have days, weeks or season's where life is just really hard.

One thing that really helps during those times is having good friends that you can just be honest with. Friends who you can say everything to and they won't judge you and they won't even try to fix everything. Often we just need someone to listen. It helps to just "get it all out".

I don't know if life is intended to be easy. I think we learn and grow through struggles. Sometimes we want to just run. Leave, Go, Move, Flee from "the problem". But is that really the answer? It always looks greener on the other side of the fence, but I truly believe that there are still weeds and moles on the other side of the fence also.

So Life may be hard, but hey, what else to we have to do?

"And we know that in all things God works for the good of those who love him, who have been called according to his purpose." "If God is for us, who can be against us? He who did not spare his own Son, but gave him up for us all- how will he not also, along with him, graciously give us all things? Who will bring any charge against those whom God has chosen? It is God who justifies. Who is he that condemns? Christ Jesus, who died- more than that, who was raised to life- is at the right hand of God and is also interceding for us. Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? Shall trouble or hardship or persecution or famine or nakedness or danger or sword? As it is written: "For your sake we face death all day long; we are considered as sheep to be slaughtered." No, in all these things we are more than conquerors through him who loved us. For I am convinced that neither death or life, neither angels nor demons, neither height nor depth, nor anything else in all creation, will be able to seperate us from the love of God that is in Christ Jesus our Lord." Romans 8: 28-39