Comments on: WDHT: Meet the Enemy Within http://www.therebelution.com/blog/2007/12/why-do-hard-things-part-two/ reb•e•lu•tion (reb’el lu shen) n. a teenage rebellion against the low expectations of an ungodly culture. Fri, 9 Jan 2009 23:20:04 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.0.3 by: Mair http://www.therebelution.com/blog/2007/12/why-do-hard-things-part-two/#comment-364923 Wed, 03 Dec 2008 14:42:45 +0000 http://www.therebelution.com/blog/2007/12/why-do-hard-things-part-two/#comment-364923 Hey guys, I bought your book for my oldest girls and thought I would just glance at it myself first. I have been not put it down! It has me thinking over my life: By the time I was 19 I was full time care giver to a mom on life support at home and would be for the next 6 years, attended nursing school and running my dad's business. I did do hard things! Recently, I began to home school our five children and returned to work one night a week as a nurse for a very tough patient...sigh. I began to mourn my losses. I was suppose to have a season when I got to be home ALL alone, kids in school, husband at work. JUST ME----my season of Donna Reed! All our dreams have changed. And yet, maybe, just maybe, it's because His plans are so much better then mine. I can do all things through HIM. I use to know that. It is not that I walked away from God, I just had plans to be lazy. How awesome that He has better for me and our family. I am not sure if this all can make sense to anyone here. I am one of those fourtysomethingers you speak about...but suddenly I find myself hungry for meat, not milk again for the first time in a very long time. I pray I can share this book with my girls and they will drink it in. Thanks, you blessed me. Mair Hey guys,
I bought your book for my oldest girls and thought I would just glance at it myself first. I have been not put it down! It has me thinking over my life: By the time I was 19 I was full time care giver to a mom on life support at home and would be for the next 6 years, attended nursing school and running my dad’s business. I did do hard things! Recently, I began to home school our five children and returned to work one night a week as a nurse for a very tough patient…sigh.
I began to mourn my losses. I was suppose to have a season when I got to be home ALL alone, kids in school, husband at work. JUST ME—-my season of Donna Reed!
All our dreams have changed. And yet, maybe, just maybe, it’s because His plans are so much better then mine. I can do all things through HIM. I use to know that.
It is not that I walked away from God, I just had plans to be lazy. How awesome that He has better for me and our family. I am not sure if this all can make sense to anyone here. I am one of those fourtysomethingers you speak about…but suddenly I find myself hungry for meat, not milk again for the first time in a very long time. I pray I can share this book with my girls and they will drink it in.
Thanks, you blessed me.
Mair

]]> by: Holly Billings http://www.therebelution.com/blog/2007/12/why-do-hard-things-part-two/#comment-354075 Thu, 13 Nov 2008 15:10:13 +0000 http://www.therebelution.com/blog/2007/12/why-do-hard-things-part-two/#comment-354075 My 12 yr old daughter & I are reading your book together. It's message is as much for me as for her. I so desire for her to choose to do hard things for herself. Any advise on how to make this decision and how to motivate her to not just do enough to "get by". My 12 yr old daughter & I are reading your book together. It’s message is as much for me as for her.
I so desire for her to choose to do hard things for herself. Any advise on how to make this decision and how to motivate her to not just do enough to “get by”.

]]> by: Jess Itzel http://www.therebelution.com/blog/2007/12/why-do-hard-things-part-two/#comment-219628 Tue, 29 Apr 2008 21:07:41 +0000 http://www.therebelution.com/blog/2007/12/why-do-hard-things-part-two/#comment-219628 Something you don't always expect to hear, but it's very much true! :) Something you don’t always expect to hear, but it’s very much true! :)

]]> by: Ruanne http://www.therebelution.com/blog/2007/12/why-do-hard-things-part-two/#comment-198941 Sun, 24 Feb 2008 20:20:52 +0000 http://www.therebelution.com/blog/2007/12/why-do-hard-things-part-two/#comment-198941 Your site is phenomenal. Your message is deceptively simple, that youth should TRY for hard things rather than drift comfortably in the sea of consumerism, or at best a merely academic achievement we (and we are a part of this culture) have set for them. Hey, guys? Your message is FAR more than to just youth. This posting right here could be the study of a group of adults young and old (I myself am 26) and if they listened and obeyed, they would profit much. The Spirit must be whispering through you, at least occasionally. I need to re-read the wisdom of this particular posting. I particularly like the allegory about the wise ruler, and the application of the C.S. Lewis quote. "We can’t really avoid doing hard things. We can only decide when to do them and how prepared we will be to handle the hard things life brings our way. You either do the hard thing of getting prepared, or you deal with the harder thing of being unprepared." How true that is. Hard things will come at you fast and furious, when you least expect them. It would be best not to reach that point as a spiritually and emotionally coddled person with no RESOURCES to deal with hard times, and with no practice and habit of RECOURSE to God. Your site is phenomenal. Your message is deceptively simple, that youth should TRY for hard things rather than drift comfortably in the sea of consumerism, or at best a merely academic achievement we (and we are a part of this culture) have set for them.

Hey, guys? Your message is FAR more than to just youth. This posting right here could be the study of a group of adults young and old (I myself am 26) and if they listened and obeyed, they would profit much. The Spirit must be whispering through you, at least occasionally.

I need to re-read the wisdom of this particular posting. I particularly like the allegory about the wise ruler, and the application of the C.S. Lewis quote.

“We can’t really avoid doing hard things. We can only decide when to do them and how prepared we will be to handle the hard things life brings our way. You either do the hard thing of getting prepared, or you deal with the harder thing of being unprepared.”

How true that is. Hard things will come at you fast and furious, when you least expect them. It would be best not to reach that point as a spiritually and emotionally coddled person with no RESOURCES to deal with hard times, and with no practice and habit of RECOURSE to God.

]]> by: Kierstyn http://www.therebelution.com/blog/2007/12/why-do-hard-things-part-two/#comment-178937 Sat, 05 Jan 2008 23:26:09 +0000 http://www.therebelution.com/blog/2007/12/why-do-hard-things-part-two/#comment-178937 This post has been so very helpful! My flesh absolutely hates doing hard things and reading this has brought clarity and encouragement to me in my battle against sin. This post has been so very helpful! My flesh absolutely hates doing hard things and reading this has brought clarity and encouragement to me in my battle against sin.

]]> by: Charlene http://www.therebelution.com/blog/2007/12/why-do-hard-things-part-two/#comment-177464 Wed, 02 Jan 2008 17:14:35 +0000 http://www.therebelution.com/blog/2007/12/why-do-hard-things-part-two/#comment-177464 :] :]

]]> by: Abby http://www.therebelution.com/blog/2007/12/why-do-hard-things-part-two/#comment-177439 Wed, 02 Jan 2008 15:51:05 +0000 http://www.therebelution.com/blog/2007/12/why-do-hard-things-part-two/#comment-177439 Isn't it funny how sometimes we lead people to believe that once you become a Christian roadblocks are suddenly cleared from life and you begin living the easy life. The life we lead is hard, guaranteed. But like you said, will we choose to face the obstacles and the trials head on, ready to meet them, or will we turn our backs and take the "easy road", letting the devil hit us from behind? Isn’t it funny how sometimes we lead people to believe that once you become a Christian roadblocks are suddenly cleared from life and you begin living the easy life. The life we lead is hard, guaranteed. But like you said, will we choose to face the obstacles and the trials head on, ready to meet them, or will we turn our backs and take the “easy road”, letting the devil hit us from behind?

]]> by: Elisabeth Gruber http://www.therebelution.com/blog/2007/12/why-do-hard-things-part-two/#comment-177234 Wed, 02 Jan 2008 04:29:11 +0000 http://www.therebelution.com/blog/2007/12/why-do-hard-things-part-two/#comment-177234 This is such an incredible and necessary series... I am very much looking forward to reading the other parts. Great post(s)! ~E. Gruber This is such an incredible and necessary series… I am very much looking forward to reading the other parts.

Great post(s)!

~E. Gruber

]]> by: Chelsea http://www.therebelution.com/blog/2007/12/why-do-hard-things-part-two/#comment-177161 Wed, 02 Jan 2008 00:25:16 +0000 http://www.therebelution.com/blog/2007/12/why-do-hard-things-part-two/#comment-177161 Wow. This series is amazing and it's not even finished! The message is so convicting. I have the tendency to go to bed and think that I've done pretty well today and sleep thinking that I'm not so bad. How wrong I am! There have been many a day when I could have pushed myself farther, but I didn't. I now realize that it is not mere laziness,; it is also a sin. I am so incapable of good without God and I must remember this everyday. Only through God can the hard things I want to accomplish come to pass. Thanks so much! Wow. This series is amazing and it’s not even finished! The message is so convicting. I have the tendency to go to bed and think that I’ve done pretty well today and sleep thinking that I’m not so bad. How wrong I am! There have been many a day when I could have pushed myself farther, but I didn’t. I now realize that it is not mere laziness,; it is also a sin. I am so incapable of good without God and I must remember this everyday. Only through God can the hard things I want to accomplish come to pass. Thanks so much!

]]> by: Elizabeth http://www.therebelution.com/blog/2007/12/why-do-hard-things-part-two/#comment-177148 Wed, 02 Jan 2008 00:00:35 +0000 http://www.therebelution.com/blog/2007/12/why-do-hard-things-part-two/#comment-177148 This is so true. Often people believe that if they just put their faith in Christ, life will be easy. But, as you said, just the opposite is true. If we wish to grow we must be willing, like a plant, to fight our way through the hard dirt and rocks to bloom in the sun. Thank you so much for this series; I really need it. Keep up the good work. ~Elizabeth This is so true. Often people believe that if they just put their faith in Christ, life will be easy. But, as you said, just the opposite is true. If we wish to grow we must be willing, like a plant, to fight our way through the hard dirt and rocks to bloom in the sun.
Thank you so much for this series; I really need it. Keep up the good work.

~Elizabeth

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