How come learning to love people is so hard?
How come pursuing God is confusing and elusive?
All the good stuff; perseverance, strength, experience, maturity, loving well, being on mission...all that stuff often comes through firing and burning and suffering and struggling.
And all this stuff rarely sees an audience, experiences the light of day, is honored among us.
If you suffer, at least people don't want to be near and at most blame you for the suffering.
If you fail at loving others, people judge and criticize and scoff.
If you pursue God in your life, it may lead you far away from family and community and like-mindedness and ease.
It's back to digging ditches and being weak and needing God's strength ever minute of ever day.
It's messy and unending and pitchy and off the beaten path.
It's counting to ten and holding my tongue and praying and praying and praying
and watching and reading, observing and refining,
it's character building
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