Pensée Of Anemones

...efforts

"Every single hardship in life is made so as to bring you closer to your Lord"

It does sound familiar yet its the truest truth

We want to gain that closeness yet we fear what brings us to it

We want to pick the fruit from the tree yet we don't want to climb the ladder that brings us to it.

Do we expect our Lord to shake the fruit off to us with a gentle wind?

Yes...

Wouldn't that be easier?

But are we deserving of this?

Yes...

We all are

Yet the feelings of strength and resolve we build by climbing up,

The feeling of pride at overcoming our fears

And savoring the victory of reaping the benefits

Is dearer to My Lord, then easing us into laziness with a gush of wind

Yet those times do come too

When we lose the will to eat that apple all together,

When we're being whiny at the mere scrap of our hand to the tree's bark

Those times do come too

When my Lord swings that apple from its tree