When Life Begs for a Redo

Life is hard.

You break your arm or maybe someone's heart.
You get a speeding ticket or cause a wreck.
You diet and eat right and gain instead of lose.
They leave or you do.... sometime's against one's will.

Life sucks sometimes...

You have a meltdown or maybe even ten.
You work so hard only for it to fail.
You find out an awful diagnosis or hear horrible news.
You say so many goodbyes, and sometimes they're forever.

You plan and scheme and dream and then life... it happens. And sometimes it doesn't make sense. Sometimes it makes you want to just... give up. Throw in the towel and scream, "What is the point?!?!"

Bad choices.
Bad reactions.
Bad situations.
Life is tough.
It doesn't give... it doesn't budge. And when you least expect it, it adds insult to injury.

When life begs for a redo, what do you do?

Often times our instinct is to curl up and complain. Complain to our friends, our spouses, and anyone that happens upon our way. Other times we internalize it and it comes out in other parts of our life... yelling at kids, nit picking with our spouses, all while ruining our own fragile attitude.

How do we get around the hard?? I don't know about you, but when life gets hard for me I find solace and comfort in knowing that everything happens for a reason, because God has a plan for me. I don't know the end result, but I do know I am safe in His hands.

Life can be hard. It WILL be hard. Our acceptance that there are no redo's, and our reaction to the hard is more important than anything. There is only one in control of everything. When we go to Him and rest our weary hearts at His feet, we can find peace in the difficult. We can trust that everything happens for a reason. It doesn't mean life won't suck at times. It doesn't mean He will prepare a path of enjoyment without hardship because our trust is in Him... It just means we don't carry the burden of the difficult life events that we don't understand.


"Come to Me all who are weary and carry heavy burdens, and I will give you rest." Matthew 11:28