harder than it should be

"life's hard then you die"

or you just feel like this...

 truth. life is hard. and i will die someday. but is it really that hard? do i make it harder than it should be? i think yes. it's amazing that we can take the smallest things and make them seem like engulfing hurricanes. but it's not a hurricane. it's just your sink over flowing a little bit. but we freak out and run around in circles instead of shutting off the water. i have had my moments of overreaction. everyday of my life. something happens to me. someone tells me something. i see something. i panic and i forget to handle it. maybe if we take a step back and just look at our problems, we will notice that we are capable of handling them. 1 corinthians 10:13- " There hath no temptation taken you but such as is common to man: but God is faithful, who will not suffer you to be tempted above that ye are able; but will with the temptation also make a way to escape , that ye may be able to bear it."



now, i know this verse specifically says "temptation" but  i think it applies difficult things in our life in general. God loves us and he will not suffer that we be given more than we can handle. handle. i think that how we handle hard things is a direct reflection of where our life is going. think about it. the handle bar of a bike can send us off the path and into the red ant hill or help us stay on the path. how i choose to handle my problems can send me off the deep end and into the red ant hill or help me stay on the right path. i choose to handle life. to take hold and just trust in my gut and my God. i read this devotional given at BYU-Idaho. it is AWESOME. read it and weep. or just read it. becuase it is really good.


http://www2.byui.edu/Presentations/Transcripts/Devotionals/2011_10_18_Wilkins.htm

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