You can live with what you know better than with what you don t know. One of the things you learn as a minister is that a whole bunch of people have big time problems. Most of us don t know about them. Spend a half-hour in the waiting room of any of the specialties in a health clinic and you ll get the picture. You ll understand the meaning of gut-wrenching.
Most people endure their difficulties pretty much quietly.
And most can find others worse off than themselves. Philosophically, I realize that being alive is a life-threatening condition. Something is going to hasten our exit from this world, sooner or later. We all hope and pray for as later as possible. And usually, the thing you think most likely to get you, won t.