Sometimes it feels like you just have to fight for
everything in your life. You have to fight to be treated right.
For example, when we moved into a house rental upon moving to
Texas, we noted everything wrong on our walk-in sheet. Then when it was time to
get our return deposit check, we noticed we were deducted a huge chunk of
change to fix the very things we’d noted were already there when we first moved
in. Damage not caused by us. So we had to stand up for ourselves to try and get
the money we were due.
That’s just one example of a long list of things that it
feels like our family has had to fight for in recent years.
We’ve had to fight to
be treated right.
It would be so easy to give up. It’s so easy to get
discouraged. Sometimes the ‘fight’ is draining. It’s stressful and it takes a
lot out of you. You don’t even always
win. Sometimes you’re treated unfairly and you just have to swallow and
move on. But it can be hard.
I think sometimes the
world expects us to give up. It at least hopes we will. It can be
easy to take advantage of people. Bully them. Walk right over them to put
yourself and your needs first.
But sometimes we need to engage in the fight. We need to
remind Satan (and the world) that we are warriors and that even though we get
discouraged and tired, we have fight in us. We have fight in us especially when
it’s something worthwhile that we are fighting for.
Life IS a battle. You win some and you lose some. You get beat up along the way. But to walk away doesn’t mean you win. It simply means you chose to give up before you even tried to fight for what you felt was right.
I do get tired of feeling like we have to fight to be
treated fairly in this life. I do get tired of feeling like we’ve been taken advantage
of. But I believe in who I am enough to know that sometimes you just have to
stand up, use your voice, and say “this isn’t right.”
If you feel like you are in a ‘fight’ for justice right now
for yourself or someone you love, hang in there. Maintain your integrity in the process and have faith that whatever the
outcome, you are doing the right thing in addressing the issue.
Don’t give those war-wagers an inch more of your heart
and life than they’ve already taken.
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