Drama as deflection

Doing God's will is often boring and disagreeable. It involves, day after day, doing things for others rather than doing things for oneself. It involves facing unnumerable hard tasks, difficult conversations, and chores that confront one with fears, grievances, and other resistances to reality locked inside like trapped bubbles.

Rather than facing those very things, complaining, cynicism, gloom, and anxiety contrive to erect an elaborate sideshow, as if to say, 'I can't possibly get on with these trivial matters whilst I am so wretched!'

The answer is not to tackle the complaining, cynicism, gloom, or anxiety but to get on with the tasks of the day calmly and promptly, seeking direction from God and others. Thy will be done to God; thy will be done to whatever chosen advisors have counselled us either spiritually or practically. The sideshows then become unnecessary and dissolve into nothing.