The defintion of insanity is doing the same thing over and over again, while expecting a different result. It's the constant treadmill, going nowhere. Are we wanting something to change? Are we really willing to face it? What do we really want?
Perhaps, it's God waiting for our answer:
Some time later, Jesus went up to Jerusalem for one of the Jewish festivals. Now there is in Jerusalem near the Sheep Gate a pool, which in Aramaic is called Bethesda[a] and which is surrounded by five covered colonnades. Here a great number of disabled people used to lie—the blind, the lame, the paralyzed. One who was there had been an invalid for thirty-eight years. When Jesus saw him lying there and learned that he had been in this condition for a long time, he asked him, “Do you want to get well?”
“Sir,” the invalid replied, “I have no one to help me into the pool when the water is stirred. While I am trying to get in, someone else goes down ahead of me.”
John 5:1-7
What will we decide? Can we look at something ugly, painful? Is that the first step to actual change?
Let's get a little- just a little- more comfy with facing what we fear. It's not hopeless; God is in it. Change is possible.
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