The religious imagination has long known this. Mountains have long represented problems to be solved, obstacles to be overcome, crosses to be carried, burdens to be borne, troubles to be triumphed over, and difficulties to be dealt with. Mountains are problems. Death is a mountain. Sickness is a mountain.
Troubles are mountains.
Hardships are mountains. Family crises are mountains. Let me tell you why. First, faith may not always change the outer circumstances of life, but it always changes the inner landscape of life. And, frankly, that makes all the difference.