Originally posted on Facebook on Friday, April 18, 2025.

A word that has been in my spirit is:

"There are some things that you don't make sense of.

Some things you just endure."

Then a sweet friend on Facebook posted a question that prompted me to share it. Her question was,

"When the going gets tough, what keeps you going?"

The answer is endurance.

You need it before the going gets tough.
But, you build endurance when the going gets tough and you have sufficient reason to keep going.

The key element of endurance is hope.

"My brethren, count it all joy when you fall into various trials, knowing that the testing of your faith produces patience. But let patience have its perfect work, that you may be perfect and complete, lacking nothing."
— James 1:2-4

What is perfection to you? Very often the difficulty we experience is the very way we learn to obtain it. So let us press on to lay hold of it (Philippians 3:12).

Sometimes, endurance is the point.

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