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Challenge. Adversity. Hardship.
What do you do in the face of these? Do you take them head on, or do they overtake you? Jesus only gives one option. Endurance.
Today, listen to Allen recount an inspiring story about one famous man’s story of endurance and discover how incredible things will happen in your life when you persist.
Stability has never featured strongly in my life; the older I become the more I encounter daily challenges to integrate change and new perspectives. Observing the natural world we inhabit, the plant, the tree, and the animal never remain the same. Everything grows, unfolds into ever new ways of being. We can’t control such change; indeed, the only authentic response we can make is to learn to flow with it. In the change we experience around and within us, there is another inescapable dimension: decay, decline, and death. Such disintegration is not an evil, nor is it the consequence of sin stated in Romans 6:23, but it is a God-given dimension of all creation. Without the disintegration and death of the old there can be no true novelty. The ability to let go of that which previously sustained us is a perquisite for embracing the new that morphs into further growth and development.
—from the book Paschal Paradox: Reflections on a Life of Spiritual Evolution, by Diarmuid O’Murchu, page 5
“Offer it up!” You may have heard this phrase from a parent or grandparent before. Sometimes it might feel like an excuse to ignore the pain that a difficult challenge in your life is causing. But it’s really an opportunity to transform every part of your day into prayer. Will you invite God into the smallest moments of your day today?
How are you weathering the storms of life? Are you deeply rooted in your faith and convictions? God is calling you, challenging you today to give yourself over to His love and mercy. Will you answer the call?
