You Can See A Lot By Looking
You can see a lot by looking. - Yogi Berra Almost all of the conflict in our lives comes to us when we live into the lie that we deserve to have our own way. That the difficult people in our lives wouldn't be difficult if they were just able to see the world as we see it. Along those same lines, our struggle for peace in the middle of trials and tribulations is often grounded in our perceived need for things to work out in our favor... every time. The late singer/songwriter Rich Mullins captured this struggle in his song, "Hold Me Jesus": Surrender don't come natural to me. I'd rather fight you for something I don't really want Than to take what you give that I need. This morning I read this convicting and powerful quote from Richard Rohr, who writes: "It is our resistance to things as they are that causes most of our unhappiness." Make no mistake, Rohr is...