Endure

Testing, testing, 1, 2


So I got a question. Do you know where your breaking point is? Do you know how long you can hold out? How long you can endure? If you knew when the testing would stop, could you hold out just a little longer? Could you endure just a little more? 


I ask these questions not of you but of myself. I wonder how much longer it is that I have to endure. I wonder just how much more I'm going to have to suffer. I'm wondering how much more of a price I'm going to have to pay. I'm wondering how much more faith I'm gonna have to have. I'm wondering how much more patience I'm going to have to show. 


If I just could see the light at the end of the tunnel, the silver lining around the cloud, the greener side of the fence, it would be ok. I would be calmer. I wouldn't have all these thoughts churning around in my head and these butterflies circling inside my belly. I could focus on what is to come and how I'm going to fit into my own life. Right now I'm still in the middle of the storm, still tied to the torture rack, still blindfolded and being beaten. Still wondering when will it all be over.


Only the strong survive, the race is not given to the swift nor the strong be he who endures until the end. I certainly hope so. After all the testing that I have had to endure I hope that in the end I will be left standing and be stronger and greater than i was before. 

This Too Shall Pass

Every now and again we all have to go through incredibly tough times. 

People always say that trouble comes in 3s right? 
So one bad thing happens, and another one, and another one. 

Whew, that was 3 right? Ok, survived that.

But what happens when they just keep coming? 

What happens when they keep piling up?

What happens when it seems they just won't stop? 

What do you do when you feel like you're about to break?

Some people turn to destructive behavior. 

Some turn to others to bail them out. 

Some people just try to weather the storm by hiding out. 

Some get active and try to find some way to turn things around. 

Some people turn closer to God.

What's the right thing to do? How would you even know the answer? 

All I know is everything runs in cycles. 

You have your ups and you have your downs. 

What goes around comes around. Every dark cloud has a silver lining. 

What goes up must come down.

Remain faithful and believe that trouble doesn't last.

Everything really will be ok. 

There has never been a situation that NEVER ended. 

So just remind yourself when you're dealing with 

disappointment, tragedy, heartbreak, or depression...it doesn't matter, 

this too shall pass.