It would have been wise to take more note of Wayne Rooney's mild words last week about the boredom of a day composed of training, rest after lunch and an evening to be filled with difficulty.
So please keep us in your prayers as the road ahead promises to be filled with difficulty.
The previous two years had been filled with other difficulties.
Gradually, the simple story of love is filled with ambiguity, difficulty, and paradox.
"Life continues, and life is a messy affair, and it's filled with joys and difficulties and tragedies," says Lorre. "Being sober allowed [Christy] to be present, to be useful and helpful to her daughter, and repair the damage with her mother, and to repair a relationship with a long-gone father.
The past 12 months have been filled with uncertainty and difficulty as the effect of these cuts has reached the charity front line.
Moving from colour to black and white, noise to silence, the present to the past and back again, McQueen's exhibition is filled with disjunctions, echoes and difficulties.
The most leniently scored item was item 205 (gap filling), with a difficulty value of -1.71.
