Many of us have been on this earth long enough to know things aren’t always easy breezy. Some things we “set our hands to” happen with barely any effort, and other things drag us through the mud.
Life for mankind or nations has never been easy. We go all the way back to the early chapters of Genesis to find out why, as God told man, (Adam), that life would be by the sweat of the brow and "thorns and thistles".