Those secondhand hard things are all around us. Hard things are hard. A person with a twisted mind decides to do violence to another human being, and a stunned family carries with them for the rest of their lives the memory of a lost loved one and a scar that never fully fades. Hard things are hard. Someone decides to tell a vicious lie about a rival or an opponent, and a sterling reputation is turned black and blue by the subtle bruise of a rumor.
Hard things are hard.
Hard things are hard, and sometimes life s hardest hard things land in the laps of life s most innocent bystanders. Hard things are hard. And, then, some of life's hard things cannot be traced to anybody's sin-ours or anybody elses. They just come. And when they come, those hard things are hard.