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Life is Difficult--Transcend it!! "Life is difficult. This is a great truth, one of the greatest truths. It is a great truth because once we truly see this truth, we transcend it. Once we truly know that life is difficult—once we truly understand and accept it—then life is no longer difficult. Because once it is accepted, the fact that life is difficult no longer matters." --M. Scott Peck Never expected to see the day I could read something like this quote from M. Scott Peck and actually understand what he was saying. Even more startling to the old me is that the new me agrees with him. Accepting the "stuff" we have to get through and looking for the hidden adventures to be found within the "stuff" lets one view troubles from the sidelines instead of groveling in the mud. If I have no control over anything, then I have no weapons with which to fight; I can give up the battle and just watch how it all comes down. If I have relinquished all active participation to God, I know He will orchestrate the situation according to His will and His weapons are the most powerful existing. I have learned He is not at all concerned about my pride or my ego or making me look good. I have also learned that in the final analysis, His outcome will be far greater, with much wider-reaching implications, than anything I might have hoped to achieve. When the Father is in charge, there's no risk involved. His way is the right way. “This then is what it means to seek God perfectly: to withdraw from illusion and pleasure, from worldly anxieties and desires, from the works that God does not want, from a glory that is only human display; to keep my mind free from confusion in order that my liberty may be always at the disposal of His will; to entertain silence in my heart and listen for the voice of God; to cultivate an intellectual freedom from the images of created things in order to receive the secret contact of God in obscure love; to love all men as myself...” --From New Seeds of Contemplation by Thomas Merton, New Directions Publishing Corporation, 1972. Pages 45-46.
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