"Is it worth it?"

Does life seem hardly worth it sometimes? Like everything you try doesn’t work? As if it’s just not worth the effort?

A woman was at her husband’s funeral. Just before the service, the funeral director came over to her and asked if she needed anything. “No, I’m fine,” she said.

“Good,” he said. “The minister wanted me to ask your husband’s age.”

“He was 98 years old,” she said, “just two years older than me.”

“Oh,” the funeral director said, “so you’re 96 years old.”

“Yes, I am,” she said, “hardly seems worth it for me to go home, doesn’t it?”

You know, we all have days like that, days when it hardly seems worth it to go home, or keep trying, or whatever else is tough for you. The only people not experiencing those kinds of days are the folks who’ve either quit trying or died.

So when you’re having one of those days, just keep at it, hang in there, persevere, and don’t give up. God created life as a marathon, not a sprint so just keep on keepin’ on as you listen to life and make a life, not just a living.