Example to the Way Life Is, Part 1 (TMF:1544)

Thursday, February 11, 2021
Peace to Live By: Example to the Way Life Is, Part 1 (TMF:1544) - Daniel Litton
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       When I was growing up, my brothers and I loved to play Super Mario Brothers on the original Nintendo, the 8-bit one. We liked Mario I and Mario III. Playing either of these two games, we never got to the end of the games without dying many times before we reached the end (and as I’m sure many of you can recall yourself, it’s was like this with most video games of that time). You play and play, and every so often, you die. You fall off of a cliff, a bad guy gets you, whatever, you die. No one, my brothers or my friends, would have expected to play Mario straight through on the first run, having never given up a life, having never died. Dying and replaying a level was just part of the process. That’s how you reached the end of the game. And so it is with life. You have trials, you die, every once and awhile, and you have to replay the level.