When you start practicing it, you realize: choosing to be unoffendable means actually, for real, trusting God. The sooner we start this, the healthier we’ll be. Not just now and not just physically, but long-term and spiritually. C. S. Lewis wrote about this lifetime trajectory, and how “little things” wind up shaping our entire existence, in The Great Divorce: Hell . . . begins with a grumbling mood, and yourself still distinct from it . . . Ye can repent, and come out of it again. But there may come a day when you can do that no longer. Then there will be no you left to criticize the mood,
...more
