Learning from Hardships: Writing Through the Struggles

• By candidasullivan
• March 19, 2025
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Give yourself some grace. This is a new season, so what worked yesterday may not work today. Every new season has challenges, so when we don’t know what to do, we need to pause and pray.

While I like to make schedules for myself and have a to-do list, life can interrupt my carefully planned schedule. To thrive in this life, we have to be willing to adapt to whatever circumstance we are given. This is hard. Lately, I have found myself in different circumstances, and I’ve had to adapt my life because of it. Not being as productive as I’d like to be has been challenging.

Serving the Lord doesn’t always look like we think it should. Sometimes, it means doing things we don’t want to do, like sitting in silence or praying about hard things.

Half the time, I don’t know what I am doing. But I have learned that I don’t have to know what I am doing as long as I follow the Lord. Obedience is the key to it all. When I ask the Lord to help me and do whatever He tells me to do, even when I don’t understand everything, He will bless me.

Everything happens in the Lord’s time. To write books and blogs to help others, I have to have experience in whatever I write about. That means some of my seasons are incredibly hard.

God will take me through the challenges, teach me priceless lessons, and then bless me to write about it. Writing about my hardships is such a challenging process. Usually, I try to fight against it. But I want to embrace it all. I want to spend time with my Lord and learn from Him. I want the priceless gift only the trial can give me.

To do this, I must get as close to the Lord as possible. I have to open my heart and feel it all. I have to live in the present moment and experience each emotion—even when I just want to stuff the feelings inside of me and deal with them later.

This trial will be over whenever I learn what I need to know. I usually make things more complicated than necessary because I try to control my life instead of surrendering it to God. When I can accept God’s will, knowing it is the absolute best possible outcome, I can walk joyfully through my trials. I can praise God through the storms.

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