Perserverence

Life is always easy on TV. There are the lawyers who just graduated from law school who are already wearing expensive suits and living in large homes. Or a guy who is supporting a family who lives in a large house in the city. Outside of TV, my guidance counselor said that all we had to do was to come up with goals to achieve and we would be successful.

What nobody tells you is that that there is a road that you must take to reach your goals. And you have to work hard. To earn a college degree, you have to apply for school and give the school your transcripts and take a standardized test. Once you get accepted to school, you must attend classes, write papers, and pass tests. Not only that, but you have to find a way to pay for classes. You only get your degree when you have finished your classes with an acceptable grade point average. It takes three to four and half years to get a degree, but on TV they just show a person who says she wants a college degree and then the next day she gets it.

When I went to school, there were many people who I knew who dropped out in the first semester. They couldn't manage their time between drinking and studying. Some people thought that since high school was easy college would be easy, and they didn't expect to have to study and go to class and write papers. I notice that people don't just have this attitude with college but also with marriage. Marriage isn't what many people expect and they quit when they realize this.

I have found that if a goal is worth achieving than it is worth working hard for it and perservering through trials to achieve your goal. Whether it is marriage or getting a degree, some things are worth fighting for.

The possibilities of God's will

I am sometimes amazed by the possibilities for God's will. It can be a number of different things.

God can bring two people together and make them fall in love and marry. And this same God can allow for the death of a spouse or divorce for a married couple.

Some people God creates to be single and others to be married.

He gives people different abilities. Some people are very athletic while others are more academic. Some people have the ability to make a lot of money, while others struggle to get by.

Some people want children and can't have them. While others have children and don't want them.

Some people live and some people die.

I can't possibly even begin to understand God's will. Like Job, I am speechless and dumbfounded when I even think about it. One thing that I do know is that it is God's wish for everyone to find Him. Because no matter where we are in life, in Him we will find peace.