Handling Hard stuff better

​If we're not careful, we can get to believing the key to an easy life is an easy life. Like there's a menu of lives or something. There's the hard life and the medium life and the easy life. And if we wait long enough, eventually someone is going to bring us a serving of that easy life.

Well, take it from someone who has ordered a sampling or two of that easy life only to have it never show up, it is NEVER going to show up.

The key to an easier (not easy) life is to accept that. Accept that waiting on the easy life is going to be a long, hard, endless wait. Accept that the key to an easier life is getting better at handling the hard stuff.

I have a lot of runner friends. Many of them run some crazy long distances. I'll see pictures of them 100 miles into a race and they are smiling.

Yes, SMILING - smiling after running 100 miles!!

It's easy to look at those pictures and think, I wish running came that easy to me. But that is not what their smiles reflect - running coming easy to them. Their smiles reflect people who got good at doing the hard task of running.

I think about my writing. I sit here this morning writing the 1000th article I've written and shared since March of 2020 (uhm, anyone remember what started in March of 2020??).

I've had people tell me they wished writing came as easy to them as it does to me. Now, I do believe God has gifted me with the ability to write, but if I hadn't written 750,000 words worth of articles the last 4 years, I would just be a writer waiting on words to show up.

We all have gifts. We all have contributions to share with the world. With each other. The problem is too many of us are waiting for life to get easier as the invitation for us to begin the sharing.

Well, I'll repeat. It is, after all, the moral of this life story: life is never going to get easy.

Never.

Ever.

Now that you know that, maybe today is the day to start getting better at doing the hard stuff. If you want a hint as to where to begin, I'd begin with the hard stuff you've been putting off waiting for it to look or feel easy.

Begin tackling it today.

And you know what, in time, life might just begin to feel like the easier life you'd been waiting on all along.