Intensity

by Dean Koontz

“God doesn’t shout; He whispers, and in the whisper is the way.”

Not all or even most suffering is at the hands of fate; it befalls us at our invitation.

But victimhood was seductive, a release from responsibility and caring: Fear would be transmuted into weary resignation; failure would no longer generate guilt but, instead, would spawn a comforting self-pity.