Is life supposed to be easy for Christians, or is it full of heartache and difficulty?

Les explains that death is the easy way out, which is why some people take their own lives when they cannot cope with their problems or circumstances. But life is different: we live in a world filled with heartache and turmoil, and with all kinds of opposition to the home and to the family. Life is difficult and not easy. Les even notes reading a book that focused so much on the things that make life difficult—heartache and sorrows—that he almost had to quit reading it. Yet even all the difficulties of life, Paul says, will never separate us. The text then moves to principalities and powers, nor things present, nor things to come; Les notes that 'principalities' is the Greek word archio, dealing with people in high positions, and 'powers' is dunamis, meaning energy.