Thought for the Day 12/22/2023

Friday Tale - Life's Hard Tasks 

Among some skaters was a boy so small and so evidently a beginner that his frequent mishaps awakened the pit of a tender-hearted (but not so wise) spectator. "Why, sonny, you are getting all bumped up!" she said. "I wouldn't stay on the ice and keep falling down so; I'd just come off and watch the others."

The tears of the last downfall were still rolling over the rosy cheeks, but the child looked from his adviser to the shining steel on his feet, answered indignantly, "I didn't get some new skates to give up with, I got them to learn how with."

The whole philosophy of earthy discipline was in the replay. Life's hard tasks are never sent us "to give up with," they are always intended to awaken strength, skill and courage in learning how to master them.
~ Walter Forward 

We are children of God, and if children, heirs also, heirs of God and fellow-heirs with Christ; if indeed we suffer with him so that we may also be glorified with him.
~ Romans 8:16-17