Be the Bee #121 | Why Easy Isn't Always Best

Lent is hard work, especially when so much of the modern world is designed to make things easy for us! Yet life isn't easy. Can we become the sort of people who learn how to do what's best, even when it's not easy?

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Co-written by Christina Andresen

Video Co-edited by Sotiri Michalatos

Music:

"Cloud Patterns," by Silent Partner, YouTube Digital Library
"Magic Marker," by Silent Partner, YouTube Digital Library

End Theme:

"Noahs Stark," by krackatoa
http://freemusicarchive.org/music/krackatoa/krackatoa_-_Singles_1002/Krackatoa_-_Noahs_Stark

Links:

Raising Saints Blog
https://blogs.ancientfaith.com/raisingsaints/

Raising Saints Podcast
http://www.ancientfaith.com/podcasts/raisingsaints

In God's Hands book
http://store.ancientfaith.com/in-gods-hands/

Blueprints for the Little Church book
http://store.ancientfaith.com/blueprints

Welcoming the Christ Child
http://www.sebastianpress.org/product-p/sp-bk-ch-2017-001.htm

Videos and Gifs:

Chris Farley
http://giphy.com/gifs/QZ5CgjoP0VrtS

I Don't Want To
http://giphy.com/gifs/reaction-desert-christopher-walken-yBnI9iojWdID6

Costanza Shaking Head
http://giphy.com/gifs/hulu-seinfeld-3o7TKAWRHYdIl4SjpS

Flags at Rockefeller Center
https://www.videvo.net/video/rockerfeller-center-1---new-york/1699/

People on Escalator
https://www.videvo.net/video/people-on-escalator-in-tokyo/4766/

London
https://www.videvo.net/video/elizabeth-tower-from-westminster-bridge/5444/

I Want it Now!
http://giphy.com/gifs/xTZGC0vnEmNDq

Crying Nutty Professor
http://giphy.com/gifs/eddie-murphy-the-nutty-professor-3o72F7YuGYKwPVjTeE
http://giphy.com/gifs/eddie-murphy-the-nutty-professor-3o72F4AiJt2opESl44

TV Remote
https://www.videvo.net/video/tv-remote/3404/

Using Smartphone
https://www.videvo.net/video/using-a-smartphone/2189/

NYC Timelapse
https://www.videvo.net/video/nyc-traffic-time-lapse-night/4179/

Shopping at Mall
https://www.videvo.net/video/timelapse---akropolis/2544

Walking on Dirt Road
https://www.videvo.net/video/legs-walking-on-path/3751/

Standing in the Rain
https://www.videvo.net/video/a-lady-stood-in-the-rain-in-new-york/5228/

Slap
https://giphy.com/gifs/smack-dynasty-catfight-b2q4CmcZeZPEI

Challenge Accepted
http://giphy.com/gifs/exercise-bring-it-on-1zTqgW6bS2jWU

Walking in Woods
https://www.videvo.net/video/walk-in-the-woods/4852/

Walking Up Stairs
https://www.videvo.net/video/people-going-up-and-down-stairs-at-waterloo-station/5419/

Relaxing
https://www.videvo.net/video/resting-feet/4183/

Photos:

Bowls of Food
https://www.pexels.com/photo/lunch-table-5929/

Cat in Amazon Box
https://www.flickr.com/photos/48503330@N08/26655140911/

Phone and Coffee
https://www.pexels.com/photo/hands-coffee-smartphone-technology-4831/

TV in White Room
https://www.pexels.com/photo/black-flat-screen-tv-on-white-wooden-tv-rack-in-living-room-88737/

Through a Lens
https://www.pexels.com/photo/road-nature-hand-path-1421/

Hamburger
https://www.pexels.com/photo/meat-salad-close-up-view-hamburgers-29302/

Slice of Cake
https://www.pexels.com/photo/food-foodporn-cafe-cake-17690/

Facebook on Smartphone
https://www.pexels.com/photo/space-gray-iphone-6-showing-facebook-app-199497/

Thinking
https://www.pexels.com/photo/black-and-white-man-model-portrait-25759/

Walking in Sand
https://www.pexels.com/photo/person-in-white-shirt-and-black-shorts-walking-under-blue-sky-during-daytime-while-leaving-footprints-behind-28957/

Steak
Depositphotos

Climber at Dawn
https://www.pexels.com/photo/adventure-backlit-climber-dawn-299903/

Person at Lakeside
https://www.pexels.com/photo/sunset-love-lake-resort-54379/

Close Up Eye
https://www.pexels.com/photo/eye-close-up-eyelashes-iris-59086/

College Degree
https://www.pexels.com/photo/achievement-cap-celebration-ceremony-262485/

Woman by Water
https://www.pexels.com/photo/adult-blur-city-dawn-171296/

Woman on Bench
https://www.pexels.com/photo/bench-nature-love-people-50592/

Dark Phone
https://www.pexels.com/photo/iphone-checklist-hands-human-29765/

Icon of Christ
https://www.flickr.com/photos/78953420@N00/846419629/

Thanks for watching! God bless you!

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