A lesson for life

        In reading the book of Jeremiah, specifically chapters 27-29 this morning, I noticed that one could almost boil down his message to "You can do this the easy way, or you can do it the hard way, but the outcome will be your exile in Babylon."  It strikes me as applicable in any number of areas; there are times when you can do things the easy way, or the hard way, but the end result--aside from the trouble of going through the process--will be about the same.