Chapter 9: When Life Gets Too Hard.
When Life Gets too hard, you have to look deep inside yourself and draw from your heart that
wellspring of strength you have inside of you, the strength inside of you that is Stronger Than
The Pain.  If Life is Too Hard, You Will Have To Be Tougher.  Be Strong.  God Gives Us that
inner strength inside of our souls, to overcome whatever blows he throws our way.
Misfortunes hit.  Tragedies happen.  Things just shock us.  We Cry.  We think it will never ever get better.  But I'll tell you a secret that my husband  taught me....
When Life Gets Too Hard, Theodore Goes Fishing.  He has bought himself a tackle box, pole and supplies to fish all he needs to.  There is a nearby pond.  So when Theodore is very sad he catches worms in the yard and puts them on hooks and sinks them into the pond and waits
for the float bobber to go down.  He sits in the close of evening and watching the darkness coming around him, and he waits for a bite.  And you know what?  He catches fish!  God Gives them to him.
That is my husband's way of talking to God.  Then he takes to fish home and you know what he does?  Heuses a dinner knife to cut their heads off while they are still alive and flopping, and pulls the worm and all their guts out.  A dozen fish makes for a fish fry.  Jesus taught us all that.  So I fry up his fish and he calls me when they are ready and we eat them...and you know what?  We actually FEEL BETTER THEN.  Then, he can get on with his life.  He is a very quiet person  Can you find something in your life, a way to pray or talk to god, a way of praying, taking chances, using luck, that can allow you to talk to God?  It may Help.
Me?  When Life Get's too hard, I get angry.  I'm kind of dumb, so i just start freaking out, acting crazy, talking to myself.  It gets out the toxins of pain.  If you are in pain, find a way to Release that Pain.  Brainstorm.  What can you do?
Heartbreaks will come.  But you have Got To Be Stronger Than The Pain.  If You can be stronger Than The Pain, Then you Can be ok.  if not, you can always cry.  Knowing when to be strong and when to let yourself cry is a gift from God.  When to you get tough, and when do you cry instead?  That is up to you...follow your heart!  When things get too tough, follow your heart.  Find a way to release the pain.  We are all different.  Toxic Pain cannot overcome us If We Accept the Pain and React.  Don't let life Bully You Around.  Be Tough.  Stand up to hardship.  For goodness's sake,  For all of us.  For yourself.  For Jesus Christ.  For your mama.  Stand up for yourself. and stand up for anyone else having a hard time.  When life gets too tough, the tough get going!
In Jesus' Name,
Amen.