Our Strength grows out of our weakness

A ship in port is safe, but this is not what ships are built for - Grace Hopper

Just found this very good phrase when I was hunting for a worth-reading aticles. "The chicken soup of the soul" which was once my favourite book when in high school. The moments when half of the classmates were reading these books when teachers were giving lectures in front of the class and unfortunately a friend of mine was caught and was given a piece of scold by our English teacher came falshing back in my memories. And the whole class was burst into laughter when the teacher said "Oh XXX reading chicken soup in my class. Chicken soup 'somemore' Wait I'll slaughter you!!! Reading Happily AR!!!"

Just wanted to share the essence from one of the articles from "The Chicken Soup" which tells that strength grows out of our weakness. I think it makes sense. The author tried to illustrate from her childhood memory where a neighbour of him taught him never watered new plats and the reason was "If you watered them, each successive tree generation will grow weaker and weaker". He talked about how watering trees made for shallow roots, and how trees that weren't watered had to grow deep roots in search for moisture.

Apply this interesting theory to life, instead of asking Lord to spare us from hardship, it makes more sense if we could ask him to spare us with stronger root. Because life is tough, whether we want it to be or not. Everyone of us are going to encounter hardship in our journey so let's pray that we wouldn't be naive. Ther's always a cold wind blowing somewhere. "Only the roots which grow deep can draw srength from the hidden sources of the eternal God"

Too many times we pray for ease, but that's a prayer seldom met. What we need to do is pray for roots that reach deep into the eternal, so when the rains fall and the winds blow, we won't be swept asunder. Simple theory but is applicable to all of us.