I wish that with a click of a button, I can pause life, or rewind it, or better yet, fast forward it to happy days. But the reality is, no such button exists. Whether the season is joyful or not, we need to live through it; counting the minutes, hours, or days before it changes; passing through it on bare feet to feel its cold or warmth, its joys and pains, its highs and lows. We can not pick only the happy parts of life and choose only that, for the unhappy parts are bundled with it. We cannot sleep through it, or go on vacation for it, or not mind it, there is no escape. We have to trudge through life, no matter the situation, because it is required of mortals. And for what? That question is only qualifiable by the kind of faith running in your spirit. -- Hebrews 11:1-2