Hello,
The twenty-four men of Basic Training Unit 64 advanced into
the Battalion last Friday. During the eight weeks of Basic Training, they were
put through many different kinds of hardship. And it has been good, so very
good for them. The world screams at us to run from hardship. Medicate the pain.
Take the path of least resistance. Get rich quickly without even trying. Take
the elevator up the mountain. But it is enduring those hardships that makes us
into the men and women that we are called to be, not running from them. Life is
hard; it will be hard and will continue to get harder. The last thing you should
do is to run from those hardships. Instead, let God use them to shape you into
who He wants you to be.
Stand strong,
