Why Do We Give Up So Easily?

We often want faith to be gentle, like a breeze through a quiet chapel. But when the Spirit came at Pentecost, it wasn’t a breeze. It was a wildfire. It blew the shutters off their fear and filled the disciples with a courage they didn’t know they had. Not a single one of them came away untouched.

And yet—how quickly we expect comfort.
How easily we retreat when it costs us something.