Doing hard things

I just spent about an hour reading quotes from famous believers throughout history (I was looking for one quote in particular and ended up on rabbit trails... funny how that works, isn't it?), and there are quite a number of them that caught my attention. I'll stick with one that follows the theme of winter camp for now, though.

"It is folly to conclude that a thing ought not to be done because it hurts. There are powers to be born, creations to be perfected, sinners to be redeemed all through the ministry of pain, that could be born, perfected and redeemed in no other way. "
-George MacDonald

We're reading the book Do Hard Things, challenging the kids to do hard things, praying that lives would be changed and people would be formed who would make a lifestyle of doing hard things, and we can't emphasize it enough. Will we take the easy road and miss so much birth, so much of the process of perfection, so much redemption that could be had if we would just fix our eyes on the cross and push forward along the narrow path?