09/15/2026
Our world is really good at making us comfortable. And comfort isn’t bad, but I don’t think we were meant to avoid everything that feels hard.
Sometimes we should choose hard things on purpose. Lift the heavy weight. Run when your lungs want to stop. Have the difficult conversation. Practice discipline when it would be easier not to. Follow through on something you said you would do.
Not because suffering makes us better people, but because doing hard things teaches us that discomfort isn’t an emergency. We learn how to stay steady, keep going, and discover that we’re capable of more than we thought.
Then life hands us the hard things we didn’t choose. The diagnosis. The loss. The setback. The season that doesn’t go according to plan.
And this is where I think there’s an important distinction: I want to know that I’m capable of doing hard things, but I never want to believe I have to be strong enough to carry everything myself.
We can build resilience AND depend on God. We can train our bodies and minds to endure while knowing our deepest strength doesn’t come from ourselves.