The Fifth Mountain

                       I was reading 'The Fifth Mountain' by Paulo Coelho...The gist of wht the writer intends to say really struck me...
                        He says ' Every Human being at some time had tragedy enter his life...At that moment, God challenged one to confront Him and to answer His qstn : "Why dost thou cling fast to an existence so short and so filled with suffering? What is the meaning of thy struggle?"
                          The man who did not know how to answer this question would resign himself, while another, who sought a meaning to existence, feeling that God had been unjust, would challenge his own destiny. It was at this moment that fire of a different type descended frm the heavens -- not the fire that kills, but the kind that tears down ancient walls and imparts to each human being his true possibilities.
                             Cowards never allow their hearts to blaze with this fire; all they desire is for the changed situation to quickly return to wht it was before, so that they can go on living their lives and thinking in their customary way. 
                              The brave, however, set afire tht whch was old and, evn at the cost of great internal suffering, abandon everything, including God, and continue onwards.

The brave are always stubborn.

                                From heaven, God smiles contentedly, for it was tht He desired,tht each person take into his hands the responsibility for his own life. For, in the final analysis, He had given His children the greatest of all gifts: the capacity to choose and determine their acts.
                                Only those men and women with the sacred flame in their hearts had the courage to confront Him. And they alone knew the path back to His love, for they understood tht tragedy was not punishment but challenge.

In a nutshell " Sometimes it was necessary to struggle with God".