There is something underneath the anger you can't quite name. It sounds like disappointment. It feels like betrayal. And it has God's name on it. You prayed. You believed. You held on as long as you could. And then the thing you were afraid of happened anyway. So somewhere in the quiet, you decided …
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497: The More You Know, the More Cynical You Become. Carey Nieuwhof on Why Knowledge Breeds Cynicism, Ministry as a Series of Ungrieved Losses, Pattern Recognition, and Finishing Well in Life
You have more knowledge than you've ever had, and somehow you're more tired. More guarded. More prone to walk into a room and see everything wrong with it before seeing anything right. You used to believe things would get better. Now you believe you've simply seen enough to know they probably won't. …