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Struggle is a strenuous or determined effort to break through a brick wall of bruising situations in the face of difficult opposition. Nations struggle; so do businesses. Every human being gets a taste of life’s struggles. Some survive it, many are strangled by it. The life we live is a rollercoaster of happiness and sadness; pain and pleasure, and good and bad times. It is true that some struggles are necessary. They may be the best thing that can ever happen to us. But struggles aren’t prayed for; who wants them? They’re like living in a steaming hot pressure cooker, who salivates after them? I believe that liberation from God is often entombed in the womb of tribulation. I believe in much gain after much pain. I believe that a bundle of joy come from a bundle of hydra-headed struggles of life that men go through. I believe that joy comes in the morning after an enduring weeping that sweeps through the night. I believe in rising after falling, breaking through after a breakdown, lau...

" I caught up with my brother over the weekend. It was a disturbed man that I was talking to all through our time together. According to him,he's been having issues with his wife. He attributes the sudden change in her attitude to her brother( in Malaysia) who has made so much money and "spoiling" his siblings silly. According to him,the word of this his in-law is LAW in his household. He said that nothing he brings home is enough again. I told him that it could be just the regular husband and wife squabbles but his next words caught me off guard. He said "What about the children that she influences to become HOSTILE towards me each time we have issues?" According to him,the body language of their young son is like that of who just can't wait to grow up and FIGHT the father. This broke my heart because these are children that this man NEVER jokes with. We used to joke that he takes care of children more than a female! They have been married for close ...