Different NOT Easier

So a few months ago something was said in church that has stuck in my craw...

(WARNING: SOAP BOX)

The statement was something along the lines of how easy 

we have it now compared to those who came before us.

I seriously beg to differ...things are NOT easier!

Certainly, I don't have to spend days over a wash board doing laundry 

BUT with the stupid amount of clothes we own I am always doing laundry.

I don't have to worry about where our next meal is coming from; for the most part.

I don't have to cut wood for a fire BUT when the heater breaks in winter I still get cold ...

and then I wish I had the wood stove.

But there are things that I DO have to worry about that would curl my ancestors hair.

I have to supervise computer & technology use CONSTANTLY....

NOT because I don't trust my kids BUT I don't trust anyone else to protect them the way I will.

I have to say NO you won't have a cell phone.

I have to say NO you can't go to that movie, read that book or play that video game.

I have to worry that my husband could die in a car accident driving all over creation for work,

NOT like worrying that your husband could die in a farming accident but still stressful.

I still have to worry that a weird disease could kill my husband, my child or myself.

So NO things aren't easier.....they are just different.

I couldn't imagine the struggles that they endured and I am certain that they can't imagine mine.

Every time I get to see my 90 yr. old grandmother she reminds me of that. 

She reminds me that things are so different from when she was raising kids

or when she was a kid...NOT easier!