Often, as I look at the pain of people around me, it almost moves me to tears. People who have suffered great loss. People whose future is closing in without resembling the one about which they’d dreamed. People who daily face the risk of losing the person they love the most. People who already have. As I see these great pains, I am reminded that life is difficult.

Life is difficult. That statement is self-evident. Yet we work in every way to avoid believing or accepting that life is difficult. Continue reading →