Finding Hope in the
Face of Difficulty
Interview with Mary Manin Morrissey by Steve Dahl
I met a man recently who found out that his best friend had been sleeping with his wife for the past 10 years. That's not just betrayal, that's double betrayal! Just as Jesus suffered his betrayal with spikes driven through his hands and feet, the man experiencing betrayal from his friend and his wife suffered an invisible spike driven through his heart. One thing we all have in common with Good Friday is the experience of betrayal and setbacks. Yet these betrayals have within them, evolutionary life lessons that can, according to Mary Manin Morrissey, either crush us or change us. She will be sharing her story at Seaside Church in Encinitas this month (info at end of article.) Reverend Christian Sorensen of Seaside Church says, “Mary is a giant in the New Thought movement. She has an uncanny ability to bring people together for greater good. She has a global perspective that people really enjoy hearing. She has worked with Nelson Mandela, his Holiness the Dalai Lama, and many ground breakers in New Thought. ”
Betrayal, disappointment, and setbacks are all amazingly inconvenient as we try to organize and control our lives into a smooth velvet ride on this pot-hole filled road of life. We have come to expect that we somehow deserve to miss all those pot-holes in our human experience. Yet, we get easily irritated when we hit a big one, when tragedy strikes, or when a major crisis occurs. But why? Could things get any worse than having to face a mob of angry Roman soldiers with hammers and spikes? Of course they could.
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