Beyond Mediocrity Blog

(Image courtesy of http://coinlink.com.) I didn't realize how prideful and arrogant I could be until my girlfriend and I began getting serious about our lives together.  Now that we are engaged and planning to get married at the end of the year, I am realizing how selfish and arrogant I really am.

(Image courtesy of http://www.lostseed.com.) "For Christ also suffered once for sins, the righteous for the unrighteous, to bring you to God. He was put to death in the body but made alive in the Spirit" (I Peter 3:18, KJV).

(Image owned by Jordan R. Cernek.) Among teenagers today, there is a phrase that they say when they are faced with challenges in life: "The struggle is real!"  (Unless you're from Whiteville, then you will say, "The s k ruggle is real!")  Today, I join them in their cry.  "THE STRUGGLE IS REAL!"