When we identify Evelyn, George, Ruth, or Tom as evil—when we see a person as somebody to fear or even hate—we have triggered a battle and positioned ourselves squarely in the line of fire.
Christ Jesus, late in his brief earthly ministry, prayed, "And now, O Father, glorify thou me with thine own self with the glory which I had with thee before the world was.
The evidence of escape-seeking in today's pressure-prone society underscores what Henry David Thoreau concluded over a century ago—that many people lead lives of quiet desperation.
