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Thursday, January 13, 2011

Hard Life

We sift through the advice, the warnings, the advertisements. We ask questions, we pray, we read and research. And sometimes, sometimes we just stumble around.


Parenting is sometimes just hard. There are days when life happens, you know how you ought to respond, you love your children, and it still feels really difficult.


Did anyone ever tell you that? That life is hard?


I browsed an online book store this week and saw titles that had all the answers! They had phrases like 'Three easy steps to...' and 'One week to a better...' and '...has never been so easy'.


I understand the desire to have some things be made less work. Streamlined process is more efficient. But what if efficiency would ruin something, rather than make it better? What if time spent in the trenches, sweating it out, working so hard you feel sore for days after, is the best way?


Parenting is like that. Somedays you just have to sweat it out.


And today, October 30th, 2014, I feel exactly the same as I did when I originally posted this content on January 13, 2011. It's still true.

1 comment:

Unknown said...

Well said ZooMama. I have vivid memories of those times. Times when the pie (me) couldn't be cut in enough pieces to go around, to give everyone in the family everything they needed. Without God, how can anyone every make it?