Comments on: “Do Hard Things” Doesn’t Mean You Can’t Have Fun

by: Joseph Goodwin

Sun, 20 Jul 2008 23:26:55 +0000

Thanks so much for this blog! It certainly puts things into perspective. I am 16 years old and have struggled my entire life with staying focused on hard, but worthwhile, things because I wanted to go outside and play. But that phrase of “hard things can be fun”, puts things in perspective. I love school and reading, but I don’t always want to do them. But I can now go into these and other acitvities that I have a hard time staying focused on praying, “God, please show me how to make the best out of this task and to make it fun, for Your glory.”

by: Jessica

Sat, 19 Jul 2008 21:14:50 +0000

This really tells it ideally as it should be! I’m facing this right now, especially with my junior year starting in a few weeks. I’m really starting to realize that with the classes I’m going to have & everything that goes along with them, my regular responsibilities at church & home, & babysitting to have money to have fun when the opportunity comes, it’s going to be a lot of work! But really if you get to do fun things all the time it’s just something to do, I think you tend to definitely appreciate downtime more when you really need it after working hard. & this is the time to learn to prioritize before college! But I’m also learning how much more rewarding it is to do things that have a greater significance & effect on the future than watching tv or going to a movie like investing in my relationship with Christ & other people.

by: Greg

Wed, 16 Jul 2008 02:16:30 +0000

Wow.. I really appreciate this post. I just graduated from high school and have been working over 40 hours a week… The first couple weeks of my employment were a drag and a very tiring experience. I didn’t have the time to have all the “fun” that I used to be able to have. Fortunately, however, God led me to verses in Ecclesiastes that basically said that it is God’s purpose and GIFT that we take pleasure in all our toil… not AFTER our toil, but IN it. This idea is repeated several times, first in 2:24 and later in 3:13.

by: Sarah

Sun, 06 Jul 2008 20:07:06 +0000

I really enjoyed reading this. It’s extremely hard for me to fit in with kids my age because they don’t get what you’re saying. To them fun is anything they’re not allowed to do or really shouldn’t be doing anyway. It’s nice to hear some one else saying serious people can still have fun, we just have ours after the work is done. Thanks so much for being such an inspiration!

by: Ethan

Thu, 26 Jun 2008 13:19:12 +0000

Great post!

by: Evan

Sat, 21 Jun 2008 23:07:10 +0000

Awesome post.

by: Kate

Tue, 17 Jun 2008 15:44:27 +0000

So true! Thanks for posting!!

by: Melissa Peterson

Sat, 10 May 2008 15:37:26 +0000

Awesome post you guys! Everything you guys say is 100% true. I always thought that doing hard things would be boring and not at all fun, but after i read this and stated to really do some hard things, i found that it was not as hard as i thought. It made me feel good to be able to say that I did it and to know that i could do it. And guess what? I found it was also fun when I had a good attitude about it. Like my mom always says, attitude is everything.
Keep up the good work guys!

With love from your sister in Christ,
Melissa

by: duran

Thu, 08 May 2008 02:09:48 +0000

This is amazing to hear this from another teen because recently my dad has been getting on to me for not putting my job before fun. I thought doing this might be terrible ,but this blog is reasuring. Thanx, I might try this some day, hehe.

by: lizzi

Thu, 28 Feb 2008 03:27:49 +0000

This may be repeating other comments, which I haven’t read, but there is the saying about happiness not being doing what you love but loving what you do… Who says hard work can’t be fun?

In a different way, most of the time, but fun nonetheless =)