Woody Hayes, the former football coach of Ohio State once spoke to a service club in Memphis, Tennessee. In his speech he gave what he considered to be football’s three great lessons: “When you get knocked down, you get up and go again. When you go again, you go as a team. And there is nothing that comes easy that’s worth a dime. I never saw a football player make a tackle with a smile on his face.”
Life is tough. It involves hardships, difficulties, trials, tribulations. Our prayer should be not that God would relieve us but that God would strengthen us.