Grace is what matters in anything - especially LIFE, especially growth, tragedy, pain, LOVE, death. That's a QUALITY that I admire very greatly. It keeps you from reaching out for the GUN too quickly. It keeps you from destroying things too foolishly. It SORT of keeps you alive.
Think of it this WAY: If you got a flat tire, what would you do? CHANGE the tire? Or GET out of the car and slash the other three tires? No! Get back on the road. Don't dwell on it; don't beat yourself up. That gets you NOWHERE.
You get out of life what you PUT into it. I think you NEED a bit of luck but you also MAKE a bit of luck. I think that if you're a pretty decent PERSON you'll get back what you put in.
DARKNESS comes. In the MIDDLE of it, the future looks blank. The temptation to quit is huge. Don't. You are in good company... You will argue with yourself that there is no way forward. But with God, nothing is impossible. He has more ropes and ladders and tunnels out of pits than you can conceive. WAIT. Pray without ceasing. HOPE.
We cannot change the political SYSTEM, we cannot change the ECONOMIC system, we cannot change the social system, until the PEOPLE control the land, and then we take it out of the hands of that sick minority that chooses to pervert the MEANING and the INTENTION of humanity.