it's not impossible -- we can always try! I try every day and I fail every day, but God picks me up. I confess my sins and in the sacrament of repentance I remember these and focus on my life and my sins and remember how small I am, how much I need God's love and grace and forgiveness. And I beg for forgiveness
For nearly a year after moving to Poland I didn't go for confession as I made the excuse that I didn't know Polish so I wouldn't understand the priest and he wouldn't understand me. I prayed daily, sometimes more, mostly less. I confessed my sins privately and begged forgiveness
yet, when I went to confession last Easter (to an American Dominican priest in Prague of all places) -- I can't tell you the relief, the spiritual, mental, physical relief. I knew all the dogmatic reasoning etc. but here I really felt it.
I know what He states will be the end all of the system of things, but there HAS to be a way to lesson the burden.
There is
God knows we are frail beings. He knows we try hard. His hand is always there to help us and He gives us these little "booster packs" to help us on our way -- the sacraments -- as you noted the Eucharist to nourish us, the sacrament of repentance to lessen the burden -- make no mistake, it is HE who provided and provides these, it is HE who lightens our burden. All we do is confess our sins and He erases the slate.
He may erase my slate, but I have a hard time erasing my slate. I make some mistakes over and over, I must be getting on His nerves!