Miranda Lambert photo courtesy of Sony Music Nashville.

“Life,” according to the teaching of Buddha, “is suffering.”

“Life,” wrote The Road Less Traveled author M. Scott Peck, “is difficult.”

The characters in Miranda Lambert’s best-known songs — “Kerosene,” “Gunpowder & Lead” and the current “White Liar” — know suffering and difficulty well. Domestic violence, dishonesty and cheating are all some of the least savory characteristics of human beings, but they are human traits and behaviors nonetheless. Miranda understands, and it’s part of the reason she sings the kinds of songs she does.

“I think life is a good struggle,” she told The Worcester Telegram. “Nothing comes easy in life, and people need to work hard to make it, no matter what one’s profession is. I love what I do and hope to get to continue making records and entertaining people at my concerts. Hopefully listening to the struggles in my songs, folks can forget about theirs for the hour and a half that they come to my show.”

Lots of people are getting the chance to see Miranda. She opened for Kenny Chesney this summer on his Sun City Carnival shows, and next year, she’ll hit the road with Brad Paisley and Justin Moore on the American Saturday Night Tour.

In the meantime, she’s taking her songs about struggles — and about overcoming them — to smaller towns in a solo tour. She plays this weekend in Worcester, Mass.; Johnstown, Pa.; and Reading, Pa.

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