If all I had to do was to get up in the morning, read my bible and say a few prayers. Go about my life doing as I pleased. I would work and become rich and famous, and everybody would love me. I couldn’t do anything wrong; I would never bumped my head or stubbed my toe. No problems, no disappointments, no fears, and no anxieties. Wouldn’t life be grand? The answer to those questions is a resounding NO! It would not be nice nor would it be grand. All of those things, which the World perceives to be success, are nothing. NOTHING! What really is nice is to have a problem or a series of problems and to wait on the LORD and in His timing, He gives us the answer and He works out and solves each of our issues, and He does it all for us. I notice in my own life that it is during struggles and trials; when I’m having the most difficult problems are the times that I am closest to the LORD. When I allow Him to help me realize how weak and helpless that I am without Him, when I can see no solutions, when things are at their darkest, when I want to scream is in my aggravation and depression, and when I am a total wreck at the end of my rope, dangling over a great space where there is nothing below but failure and death; it is then that His love, His mercy, and His forgiveness comforts me, and lifts me up to safety. These are some of the sweetest times of my life, and memories of these times will live with me for eternity.