easy life?

Did you come to me thinking that I would give you an easy life? Did you find you were mistaken about that? Yet I do give you a life with meaning and purpose. Can you see that this is better? Who wouldn’t want an easy life? Yet how many people do you know who can earn a living without maximum exertion, have some free time in which to enjoy luxuries, and do not face imminent war or plague that nevertheless are forlorn and uneasy because they can’t place their own lives in a greater context of meaning? Do you find peace in knowing that I provide for you? Yet there is an even more basic reality in the lives of my children, that I give them an identity, an eternal perspective and foundation of purpose, meaning, and destiny.