While working on a project recently it was explained to me that there are always three factors to consider—time, money, and quality—and you can’t have all three.
Want something fast and cheap? You’ll sacrifice quality.
Need it next day delivery? Get ready to pay up.
Want the best when it comes to finding a better half? That could take time. Just might take 25 years and 354 days to be precise. (Her future name is Jessica Belkot.)
This is not how we’re programmed. This is not how we’re marketed to. We are told that you can have it cheap and you’ll get quality quickly. We are told that there is an Easy button or a free app that will take care of those problems. That will answer the questions and take away the pain.
As a teenage I knew it “all.” In college I defied logic and learned more than “all.” After school I realized the explanation of life couldn’t be found in an encyclopedia. Now, I’m just confused. 
Why are we trying to remove unpleasantries from our lives? (That’s not rhetorical.) There seems to be this assumption that comfort is the goal. That “good” and “hard” can’t be synonymous.
Reading in Romans the other day I was reminded that “suffering leads to perseverance, perseverance leads to character, character leads to hope.”
I live on hope.
I desire character.
But I often want it without having to persevere or suffer.
That’s a setup for failure.
There are more and more easy buttons to life, but I want to hit them less and less. I’m realizing that easy is quick, but it is so much more expensive.
