It’s thinking that I had the solution that probably created the problem in the first place.

Prayer is lifting something up to a God Who had the answer before I knew I had the problem.

What we’re searching for will determine where we arrive, or if we arrive. And right in the middle of such risky choices, Christmas is God perfectly solving the problem by showing us what to search for and then bringing it to us.

The need for a solution suggests the existence of a problem. The existence of a problem suggests the presence of a mistake. And a mistake suggests the existence of a less than wise choice that was probably mine.

More times than I can remember I look around and I ask why the hole I’m in looks so strangely familiar. Probably because it looks a whole lot like all the other ones I dug before I got around to digging this one.

As a Christian, the litmus test of taking on a problem is being convinced that I can’t solve it, for that takes me out of the equation and makes God ‘the’ equation.

The problem with patience is that we are not patient enough to learn it.

The problem with the ‘herd’ is that our voice is never ‘heard’.

The next problem is often the last problem in redress.