This is true Life – living for the ultimate reason. This is the Life I’ve come to know, this is the Life I’ve come to embrace – a life lived for Jesus; a life lived for the Kingdom. This is my faith; This is my patience; This is my hope; and This is my life! Who tells you to turn away from sin is easy? Who says to shun temptations and worldly pleasures is funny? But, this Life I’ve chosen; this Life is my discipline! Who tells you it’s simple to forgive and forget the pains inflicted on us by loved ones? Who says it’s effortless to pardon friends who turned betrayers, and not to strike back at friends who stabbed our hearts? Who says it’s amusing to love ones enemies? But, this Life is my choice; this Life is my love! Who says we don’t feel like giving up sometimes, especially when we are overwhelmed by the troubles and cares of this life? Who affirms that we don’t feel like caving in when the challenges of life become overbearing? Who says to rise again after a fall is as easy as the falling especially if you’ve fallen many times? Who says to build our lives again from the rubbles of the past and the ruins of the present is simple? But, this is the Life I have embraced; this Life is my encouragement! Is anybody saying, “Sacrificing your last is easy?” or “letting go of your only, no big deal?” Who says it’s normal or human to give out of your need with your needs starring you straight in the face? Who says to turn your back at your own will, to close your eyes to your own dreams and lay your desires on the alter of sacrifice, just to embrace His own will is easy? But, this is the Life I’ve chosen; this Life is my joy, my incentive and my reward! Who says we don’t feel weak sometimes? Who says we don’t, sometimes, feel perplexed and confused with clouds filling our hearts? Who opines that the journey’s always smooth with the skies so bright, the sun smiling and gay, and beauty all around? But, this is my life; and this is my motivation and my comfort! Who says we don’t feel fear? Who says we don’t get scared sometimes? Who is of the belief that situations and circumstances sometimes don’t frighten us? But, this life if my choice; this life is my courage! It's ok to face challenges; it's ok to cry; it's ok to be tempted...but in all these things, we are more than conquerors through Christ who strengthens us ! Alleluia!