The Comfort Zone Cave
"You see, sometimes God allows us to be uncomfortable." "Oh?" "Yes. Because it's good for us." So my dear sister-friend, Sara , explained to me one day, impassioned by this truth she'd discovered in a recent podcast. She was embarking on her own personal revelation, but I listened attentively, her words snapping into place like scattered puzzle pieces finally coming together in my mind for a glimpse of the full picture. "It's not about whether it's easy or hard, it's about whether it's uncomfortable. Sometimes it's the easiest things that are uncomfortable...but God wants us to do them because it's the only way to stretch and grow ourselves from where we are." I've paraphrased, of course, because my mind was too busy spinning in place at the time to trap her exact words for safekeeping. It kept spinning as the full picture came into view: Degrees of suffering differ. Degrees of difficulty differ. Bu