We have to struggle to learn

(Picture coming soon)

Right now Eli can roll over from his tummy to his back, mostly over his right side. When we play on the floor, I put some of his toys out of his easy reach. This way he has to twist and turn and use his muscles to get to the toys. It's hard to watch him struggle. It would be easy for me to just hand him everything that he wants, and sometimes thinks he needs, but then he'd never grow stronger. He needs to work at reaching and moving and trying new things, or he won't gain the muscles he needs to be able to roll from his back to his tummy and crawl.

The same goes for us. God could give us anything at anytime (he is all-powerful after all). However, if he did, then we would lose out on important lessons. We would never learn and grow in very important ways. Just like with Eli and I, sometimes we struggle and struggle only to have what we wanted in essence handed to us in the end because we just couldn't quite reach it on our own. Either way, I guess my point is, I am grateful that we are not just given everything that we want, and that we have to struggle for it. I just hope that I can remember that next time I'm getting frustrated :-)