i'd be a total liar if i said that life was easy most of the time. many times i chalk it up to living in a foreign country and having to deal with living here, but i really think that even if i lived in the states it would probably be similar if not the same. i like to assign blame and put my hardships onto someone or something else in order to diminish my responsibility or to ignore the lessons that i ought to learn.

i should view that challenges of life more in terms of what God is teaching me rather than how i can avoid them to maximize the pleasure of this life. otherwise i'm just missing the point of his discipline and training.