Personally, it's been a trip.

We decide from the love poured out into us by Christ, loving others as we are loved.

Christ comes through.

"...there is much more going on than the failures of this world."

It is Christ who takes precedence and priority over every resource, tool, and strategy in our disposal. Christ is the Life infinitely superior to our resources, Christ is the Way infinitely superior to our tools, and Christ is the Truth infinitely superior to the facts that we gather.

"...this is the Truth that stands - with or without our participation."

To impose absolutes over finite creations will fail. No, you impose percentages over the finite, but you impose absolutes, or in other words you would place your full trust in the infinite.

We have a perspective of peace present to us no matter what happens to us, or no matter what we make happen.