Do you remember the Staple's commercial with the big red button. What a successful ad. I don't know what they paid the agency that created it but that darn red button is still alive; it's entered our cultural lexicon. In the ad whenever an individual confronts a difficult situation, all they have to do is reach over and push a red, over-sized, glowing button that reads, "easy."

Got to pick up three kids, make dinner, finish that report at work, and be supportive to your spouse? No problem, just push the big easy button.

Need to do a risky surgery never performed before? Hey, just push the big easy button.

Faced with the need to balance economic growth and stability with environmental safety and the welfare of worldwide ecosystems? No problem, just push the big easy button.

Big problem: there are no easy buttons. There's no easy button to free us from the trials and tests of life, of the diabolos that meet us at every corner. Jesus taught us to pray, not "save us from temptation," but "lead us not into temptation." Cause being in a tempting situation is not easy. Given enough exposures, we will fail.