Free to fly with the wind. Yet freedom from restraint simply put it at the mercy of an unsympathetic breeze. It fluttered ungracefully to the ground and landed in a tangled mass of weeds and string against a dead bush. How much like kites we sometimes are. The Lord gives us adversity and restrictions, rules to follow from which we can grow and gain strength.
Restraint is a necessary counterpart to the winds of opposition.
Some of us tug at the rules so hard that we never soar to reach the heights we might have obtained. Let us each rise to the great heights our Heavenly Father has in store for us, recognizing that some of the restraints that we may chafe under are actually the steadying force that helps us ascend and achieve. B. Lynn Tough times never last, but tough people do. When it gets dark enough you can see the stars. God had one son on earth without sin, but never one without suffering.