If it was great, did it have to be fun?

I think Hannah has it right.  Not everything that is a great experience in our lives has to fall under the category of "fun".  After she and Luke returned from trek yesterday afternoon she had a lot of people asking her the same question - "did you have fun?".  She didn't feel like "fun" was the right way to describe what she had experienced.  She said it was hard, and great and life changing but not fun.

So I have been thinking about some of the greatest experiences in my life that made the biggest impact on me.  Were they fun? Nope, not really.  Giving birth to my 3 children was probably and will probably always be the most life changing, awesome, spiritual experience of my life.  But F U N was not how I would have spelled it.  And even after it not being fun, I voluntarily did it 2 more times! But fun definitely came with those 3 little people.
 I think we are supposed to gain and learn the most from the things that make us inhale and fill our lungs and remind us we are alive.  Fun is the way we show God that we appreciate the life we have.  We make our own fun.