Going Through A Rough Patch? Get Ready For A Growth Spurt!
In a world that's forgotten what a spine is good for, add a little steel to yours with this quick clip
Ever wonder about the price we pay for living on the relative Easy Street that modern medicine, relative peace, and a period of relative political and economic stability can lull us into?
It teaches us to avoid or even fear the exact things that bring greatness out of us.
It’s easy enough to see in scripture that God didn’t have a habit of plucking perfectly polished boys and girls out of the graduating class of the best schools and pressing them into His service.
Nope, he has always been more of a pick out any old half-burned charcoal briquette from the bottom of the BBQ, press it into a diamond before cutting and polishing it into the scalpel-sharp cutting tool finally fit for divine purposes.
And if, like David Bowie used to sing, you’re feeling ‘Under Pressure’… we’ve got some good news for you.
God might be hard at work turning a briquette into a diamond… if you don’t fight him on the process. What does that process REALLY look like when its not being dressed up in the pastels of nicer-than-Christ church-ianity?
These seventy-one seconds could totally flip your script… if you’ll let it.
this is for those who're going thru a rough patch. enjoy and share. pic.twitter.com/PRFjgeGSxG
— Doug Giles (@TheArtOfDoug) November 17, 2025
The status quo is easy.
We’re called to something better.
But if we’re gonna be any use to Him at all? Well, first, we’ve gotta be hardened for the task.
Those who skip that step too often end up as the smoking train wrecks we pass on our way to the destination… a flash-in-the-pan ‘rising star’ before becoming an embarrassing headline or public failure.