![]() ![]() It is easy to complain, especially from behind the protection of a screen name and keyboard. Ironically, many of the loudest virtual voices have never done a thing to help the causes they claim matter so much. In the age of social media and the internet, it is easier than ever to jump on the bandwagon and complain about an event, person, policy or organization. The first two lines of the Serenity Prayer ask for perhaps one of the hardest things of all: the strength to both accept that some things are out of our control and come to peace with that fact rather than drowning in useless, toxic rage. The inevitability of those facts does not make them less horrible, but it does mean that there is nothing we can do about it. In our hearts we know that there is nothing we can do to change some facts of life. We do the spiritual equivalent of punching a brick wall and expecting the wall to come down instead of our knuckles to bruise and split and break. ![]() We deny the terrible news of a deadly diagnosis and stick our heads in the sand. We rage against the congested traffic and fall prey to road rage. When faced with something we wish we could change, we often fight it. ![]() Everyone has things in their life they wish that they could change, whether it is something as small as the traffic and congestion that fills a person’s daily commute or something as serious as a loved one’s diagnosis with terminal cancer. ![]()
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