The New Era 1997 : How Do We Make The Most Of Them?

Why do difficult challenges exist? There seems to be no point in hardships, they just cause pain and sorrow. But after a hardship, everything seems brighter, you are grateful for everything and your eyes are opened to a completely different perspective. Hardships are challenging but after overcoming hardships, you will be satisfied with excellent results.

I have challenging days that is easier to endure now that I have the patience to take the time needed to accomplish my goal. There is one thing I do know is that the only thing impossible is not believing in you.

Life isn't worth living if you are not willing to accept the challenges thrown your way. How I grew up wasn't easy. It, instead, was rousing from being adopted out of China, learning a new culture, to facing some hindrance. Nevertheless, I couldn't have done this on my own. With the help of God all things are possible.

Life has up's and down's but you can get through because people come together to help. For instance, in the book Fever, 1793, the Free African Society went around to help the yellow fever victims. The doctors thought the Africans were immune to the disease because hardly any Africans died. When people come together, like the Africans helping the victims, you can get through it. You can get through it when people come together, because everyone starts working together instead of avoiding the

Inky and the receiver, who caught the ball, collided into each other !CLASHHHH! Inky Johnson blacked-out, he suffered nerve damage and later became paralyzed. He could never play football again. He finished his college degree and became an inspirational speaker to tell his story. Inky Johnson turned a negative circumstance into a positive situation. Unfortunately, every college athlete that gets injured isn't like Inky Johnson. Injuries happen more often to college athletes than people think and it’s deeper and more concerning than people realize. Significant injuries can cause emotional effects to college athletes which can be negative or positive. The emotional effects on injured college athletes should be taken seriously by colleges and coaches because it can lead to depression, changes in appetite ,and lack of

Imagine having the perfect life- you get into all honors classes, you get straight A’s, you are the first chair in the orchestra, you get into the A Cappella choir, you are on the varsity volleyball team, President of the Student Council, and you have a perfect home life. You have never had to face a single obstacle throughout your journey in life. When your whole life is like this, you do not know what failure feels like and will never experience the need to rise up after a downfall. There are many types of journeys one can take in life and dealing with obstacles has a prodigious impact on the outcome. The obstacles and hindrances are the things that shape us as we experience the ups and downs in life.

When people go through something difficult it can change them. Making them who they are, it can change them for the bad or good. Therefore, hardships can greatly influence a person’s life by making them appreciate all the things that make life enjoyable.

Life is the toughest thing you will do in your life. It is the test on how well you can survive the world, and all of its cruel punishments. It is the assessment on how to cope with the bad, so the good times seem greater. Life can throw a enormous amount of cruel events that sometimes are unavoidable. Not everything in life is bad, but people tend to make things much worse than what they really are. People over exaggerate many events that could be easily fixed, but then there are the people who are not exaggerating the paing and irony they are facing. There is a number of ways of how to cope with tragedies, such as being with friends, talking with family, or just doing something fun to keep your mind off of the harsh environments

Persevering trials bring purpose, and God’s love is evident in His chastening which should never be despised (Job 5:17; Hebrews 12:5).

Many players will not follow the rules until they can relate to them. Someone will need to be brought in to talk to the players about what happens when they do not tackle correctly; serious injury can be caused to not only the player who is tackling, but also to the person that is getting tackled. The story of a football player named Inky Johnson helps describe the heartbreaking effects football injuries can have on players. Johnson’s mother gave birth to him when she was only fifteen years old. Johnson grew up in a poor home with eight other siblings, but he did not let that stop him from pursuing his dreams (Inky Johnson). Johnson, from a young age, told his older cousin that he wanted to play in the NFL. The two worked at it for years by running from light pole to light pole until a coach came to the street and signed the two up for organized sports. Johnson fought off injuries his whole high school career and received a scholarship to the University of Tennessee (Inky Johnson). Things were going well until it came to the third game of his junior year when he came up to hit someone and he blacked out and fell to the ground. Johnson´s teammates tried to get him to get up but he was unable to move. Johnson severely damaged his right arm, tearing all of his nerves (Inky Johnson). Now he lives with a paralyzed arm. This would be the end of Inky Johnson´s chase of his NFL dream on the football field. Kids do not think about this happening to them, they just play the game, but

Hardships have the power to make a break a person, as Roman poet, Horace, once said, “Adversity has the effect of eliciting talents which in prosperous circumstances would have lain dormant”. Everyone has or will have to face adversity at some point in their lives, it is a universal truth. Although misfortunes usually have a negative connotation, depending on the struggle and how one deals with it, it is likely the person will come out of misfortune better prepared for the world. Contrastly, if a person never experienced any hardships, they would lack a sophisticated understanding of the world and lack the ability to handle difficult situations. Adversity gives people strength they can not obtain with success.

So If you ask others have I struggled well, they would probably tell you yes. Looking at my life from the outside, I seems to have it pretty together. I take on many task a father, a youth leader, a surgeon, an administrator (and now student) and remarkably get it all done. If you ask me, have I struggled well, I’d have to say, “ I am not so sure” I have many doubts and question. Sometimes God and I have some talks and they are not so nice from my end. But what does it mean to struggle well? I think of Corrie Ten Boone, what an amazing woman. She struggled well. She was a Christian survivor of the Concentration camps (read the Hiding Place to know more about her story) She wasn’t perfect. She certainly saw life in the concentration camps different than her sister Betsy who was much more accepting of God's will. In the end though she came to the realization that God was in control of all things and she was able to trust in him. While my life and struggles pail in comparison, I believe that life is a journey and it the struggles of life that help us to ultimately bring us around to full obedience and trust in God. Why did James in verse 2 of chapter one say to “count it Joy when you face trial of many kinds.” It is no because they are fun or enjoyable, but because of what the outcome will be. In the following verses. He goes on to say that trials develope patients and through patients we are made complete. It is when we realize this that we then can

There have been so many amazing things that I have experienced in my life already. I look forward to each new experience I may have an opportunity to have. Each day is a victory, a challenge, and a success story. Every day is a gift and you should take full advantage of everyday you are given. Unfortunately, we all miss some of the best moments in life by being so concerned about control life.

It has been said that life can never be carried out and truly lived to its fullest unless there has been some sort of suffering and pain. Mistakes are to be learned from, and a hard past can only result in a stronger present. Though many might find themselves alone in their misery the truth is they are not, everyone has struggles. We all have our ups and downs, but it is how we react to them that truly matters. Life is life and no matter what, giving up on lifelong dreams and aspirations because of a few bumps in the road should never be an option.

Life is something that requires a considerable amount of physical and mental effort. Some are fortunate enough to have everything prepared for them. Such as some are born into money; some come across good fortune yet most work hard from the start to get some where in the world. It just all depends on how you were brought into this world. For some people, life is full of stress and hardships. That’s how life was for someone very dear to me. He had it difficult from the start. However he chose not to let life get him down. When life gave him lemons, he made lemonade.