The Big Three

 You persevere in the face of the big three.  What are they?  Adversity, trial and temptation.  They all tell you to give up.  So you have to have some goal.  A person wanting to run a marathon has this as their goal.  To do it they must practice running, weights, stretching, eating and sleeping correctly and so on.  Such a person faces adversity, trial and temptation.  It is lousy weather.  I don’t feel like running.  A marathon is stupid.  And so on.  Plus, no one is watching you run days after day.  Consistency if often done alone.  That is why a group helps to address the Big Three.  People in recovery are running their own kind of marathon.  So are those in a spiritual practice.