What is discouragement? It seems to be the suffering of the will to continue to labor for wisdom. For even small steps are still steps, and learning is still learning, no matter what. Yet, a discouragement to continue, to wish away the hardship, to cast blame on prior circumstances, or the present ones, is unbelievably tempting in a time that requires hindsight to see clearly. Then the only rational thing to do is to keep trying.
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