The spirit of God encourages us to move up higher in our lives. His spirit is one of progression, we can be more than we are now, we can be nicer, we can be sweeter, we can be kinder.There is also the natural progression in our academic lives that the spirit encourages and usually this comes through equipping ourselves with the tools that make for this kind of progress. so if we need to study to achieve this, then let us make the sacrifice. nothing comes easy and discouragement comes from all angles when we want to improve our lives. The challenge is for us to ' bite the bullet' and trust that we will get the outcome we desire. Biting the bullet comes out of older days when a person had to deal with a physical ailment. say a cowboy had a bullet in him, the doctor would use alcohol, usually whiskey to sterilise the knife and would have the patient put a hard object in his mouth to cushion the pain when the knife is inserted. Biting the bullet prevented the patient from yelling out and provided a buffer for him to sink his teeth into. We bite the bullet in our everday circumstances because what needs to be done needs to be done. love lauren