We can grow discouraged and weary of sorrow and sinning and badly in need of a new beginning. Every morning and each day can be a new beginning if we let it be so. Allowing the troubles to remain unchallenged only allows them to grow. It may be easy to say that we should start again, pick up our tools and restart our efforts, but experience teaches us that it takes courage and determination. Those are attitudes that we humans can develop. Dealing with it requires making up our minds.

One man who experienced many moments of discouragement also knew the value of starting again. He was a disciple and by his own experience encourages us all to make the effort to start again. Peter said to "gird up your loins" and reach out as "newborn babes" (1 Peter 1:13,  1 Peter 2:2). Humans can develop the attitude of never quitting, but to rise and go forward again. Rest if you must, but get up. The righteous man rises seven times (Proverbs 24:16). He needed to restart each of those times. He developed the habit of starting again and again if need be. So can we.