"$2.31. Hmm. It's up a few cents." I thought as I drove by a BP today. I surprised by my reaction. It wasn't that long ago, maybe a year, that I thought, "$2.31!!! What the...&U*&@*^@*&@"

My how time changes things. But it still ticks me off. I feel helpless in the face of big oil companies. What can one man do? Ride my bike? Stop buying gas? No. My only choice is to get used to it. The price is here to stay.

What's going on in our lives that seem wrong at first, but after a while we begin to think, "It's not THAT bad. It could be worse." What's going on, what pressure is on us that we feel helpless to fight and we feel like we have no alternative but to give into the pressure. Maybe it's an addiction. Maybe it's pressure at work. Maybe it's a toxic or abusive relationship.
In the face of a large oil company, I don't have a lot of say in the price of gas. I know that, unless I become a revolutionary and muster the American public around the cause. Not going to happen.

But when we feel powerless to face forces in our own lives...forces out to destroy us...we can do something. We could give up and give in, or we can surrender to the all powerful God who can do more than we can ever ask or image for us. There is help. There is hope. There is a power greater than ourselves. There is a being in this universe, who, as one theologian put it, if he stop thinking of us would cease to exist. This being...God seen in the face of Jesus. He's preoccupied with our health, with our lives, with our relationships. Let him in and see what happens.