Let’s just be honest about it. What we are all trying to do here is difficult. We can pretend it isn’t. We can pretend that it gets easier. We could stand here and say, “If you just try harder, and believe more, the bad stuff will all go away and the really good stuff will start to happen. It will all get easier if you just believe.” The problem with that is that, for a lot of us, we spend most of our time wondering, “Okay, just when is that going to happen? How much harder do I have to try? How much more do I need to believe? I thought I was doing that… but, it sure doesn’t feel like it’s getting any easier. Just when does it get better?”

For some of us, it takes until we finally get tired of trying harder, and we find it more and more difficult to believe in much of anything. We just sett…