"Life isn’t easy and straightforward. It’s full of challenges and difficulties. Trouble will come to us uninvited and without warning. Man is prone to trouble as sparks are to fly upward, and under much the same circumstances: as the result of invisible forces surrounding us. But it is precisely because life is like that, that we should choose to embrace it and be grateful for it. It is because life is a damn pain that we should be glad to experience it.
“A prisoner of war once looked down
in disgust at the bowl of slop and weevil-infested crust in front of him, and
then noticed his cellmate saying grace over it. He said, ‘You’d say grace over
a meal like that?’ His comrade looked startled and said, ‘Yeah – thank God for
that!’
“It is in that spirit that we
should each of us embrace the problems we face and be glad for the opportunity
to work through them. We should not merely accept and endure our flawed lives,
but rejoice in them. That is why we have songs of praise for our life in this
fallen world.”
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