Cry havoc and loose the inner pig. All across the land tempers flare, often over the most inconsequential of matters. A plane is late, the traffic is jammed, some poor minion in a municipal office fails to sit up and take immediate notice of our presence, or a job is lost or a romance ending. The inner peace God wants humanity to have has been replaced by the inner pig because humanity has lost its faith in God. Humanity insists on going its own way, and humanity is lost in a maze of confusion.
Confusion replaces certainty, and confusion is the food upon which the inner pigs feeds.
St. Augustin said that the Lord made us for Himself, and we cannot have peace until we rest in Him. Two thousand years ago, Christ told us if we will place ourselves in God's hands, and obey his divine will, he will remove all anxiety from our lives. He will direct it and lead us into the safe harbor of his bosom. Anxiety is the gate through which the inner pig emerges. Le cochon interieur is loose in the land.