
Not Easy
I wanted life to be easy. I know. That sounds shallow, naïve, “first-world”, whatever you want to call it. I know it’s not even 100% real. But I’m pretty sure it’s true about you on some level, right? We all want easy. We just don’t say it. I knew life had the potential to be hard. I had read Jesus’ warning about trouble in this world (John 16:33). I saw it around me; I anticipated hostility from outside the faith. But the personalization of it was mostly theoretical in my mi