{"id":2033,"date":"2014-10-30T03:44:23","date_gmt":"2014-10-30T10:44:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.dropoflove.net\/jay\/?p=2033"},"modified":"2025-11-06T14:50:16","modified_gmt":"2025-11-06T22:50:16","slug":"hard-life","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jshox.com\/jay\/2014\/10\/30\/hard-life\/","title":{"rendered":"A Hard Life?  Hardly"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hey<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s kind of a hard life.  I like to put it in perspective.  Hard?  Not compared to so many other people and what they have or are dealing with.  I&#8217;m sure that other would be doing wonders in what I&#8217;ve royally screwed up.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s like that old thought: at the end of life God shows you a painting.  You say, &#8216;wow that&#8217;s amazing!&#8217; &amp; He says &#8216;that&#8217;s the life I had planned for you.<\/p>\n<p>For me I can only imagine what kind of scribbled on, torn up raggedy picture that&#8217;s been painted so far.  Sometimes I wonder if it&#8217;s even salvageable&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s just&#8230; Well&#8230;. I&#8217;m sure having my life would be easy for some others.  Maybe not if they were in my exact shoes with exact faults and insecurities.  I don&#8217;t think I actually have a hard life, I just think life for me- from day to day is a struggle.<\/p>\n<p>The old Israel meaning (struggles with God).  Except mine is struggles with life.<\/p>\n<p>That randomly reminds me of a boy meets world episode.  &#8216;Runs with squirrels&#8217;. If you don&#8217;t know what I&#8217;m talking about you should look it up on YouTube.<\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s another thing that I&#8217;ve done recently.  Started watching the kids show &#8216;Girl meets world&#8217; on the Disney channel &#8211; it&#8217;s cute.<\/p>\n<p>I suppose that&#8217;s all I have for now.<\/p>\n<p>just Pray<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hey It&#8217;s kind of a hard life. I like to put it in perspective. Hard? Not compared to so many other people and what they have or are dealing with. I&#8217;m sure that other would be doing wonders in what I&#8217;ve royally screwed up. It&#8217;s like that old thought: at the end of life God&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":12045,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_kadence_starter_templates_imported_post":false,"_kad_post_transparent":"","_kad_post_title":"","_kad_post_layout":"","_kad_post_sidebar_id":"","_kad_post_content_style":"","_kad_post_vertical_padding":"","_kad_post_feature":"","_kad_post_feature_position":"","_kad_post_header":false,"_kad_post_footer":false,"_kad_post_classname":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2033","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/jshox.com\/jay\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/oct3-sunset.jpg?fit=1190%2C893&ssl=1","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":405,"url":"https:\/\/jshox.com\/jay\/2005\/08\/23\/405\/","url_meta":{"origin":2033,"position":0},"title":"hello everyone!Good morning.. its a\u2026","author":"me@jshox.com","date":"August 23, 2005","format":false,"excerpt":"hello everyone!Good morning.. its a nice 70 some degrees for a high today.. 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