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The Struggle is Part of the Story

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The struggle is part of the story. I was searching for scriptures about peace and this little meme popped up and jumped off the screen at me. I had to stop what I was doing and write my thought train down. However my mind is going faster than I can type. Here is an attempt to keep up. Why are movies good? There is an opening and an introduction to all of the characters and what the story is going to be about. Then the struggle begins. We watch these characters that we’ve grown to love and sometimes hate fight their way through a situation. By the end of the movie everything has resolved itself….for now. Lightbulb! If there was just a beginning and an end we wouldn’t stay interested very long. We wouldn’t feel the sense of peace, hope and excitement that we usually feel at the end of the movie when everything has worked itself out. (I know there is always an exception.) We wouldn’t have learned anything. How to deal, cope, endure, overcome and so much more. Life. Every new situ...