Quote of the Day

"Jesus told us to pray to our Father, 'Thy will be done,' for a vital reason. His will and our will are usually on opposite ends of a tug-of-war rope, with a messy mud puddle in between. He's pulling us toward the very things we think are ludicrous, beneath us, unfulfilling, and painful. We're pulling Him toward what we think - and what our society tell us - will make us feel important, satisfied, proud, and happy. Thus, God's greatest doings for us will often seem, at the time, like our undoing. And in many ways, that's precisely what they are. He's tugging us through the mud puddle. He is undoing us, unconfusing us, undeceiving us." 

                                  - Chad Bird in Upside-Down Spirituality