Looking for a Few Difficult Men and Women [Excerpt by John Ortberg]
Excerpt from John Ortberg’s The Me I Want to Be: Becoming God’s Best Version of You.
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Some people tempt me out of the flow of the Spirit. They judge me, and I feel discouraged. They dislike me, and I feel rejected. They are a black hole of need and drain me. They throw roadblocks in my path and discourage me. They anger me. They scare me. They depress me. Plus I don’t like them.
The playwright George Bernard Shaw … and Winston Churchill famously found each other to be difficult. Shaw once sent two tickets to Churchill to the opening night of one of his plays, with instructions to “bring a friend — if you have one.” Churchill sent them back because he was busy opening night. He said he would come on “the second night — if there is one.”
