Stay and fight
Staying is hard. The easier thing to do is to cut and run. I've never been one to run away though. It's not in me. There's something deep in my soul that screams, "Do whatever you can to make it work!" I have found this in all my relationships, in places where I've lived, and in all my jobs. I feel compelled to stay and fight. I have to have those hard conversations. I cannot avoid or peace out when there is conflict, because it goes so against my make-up. I wasn't like this as a non-believer though. I wanted to run from everything and conflict scared the crap out of me. But Jesus changes everything and He's changed me. And He often asks me to stay. Staying sometimes sucks. In the in-between, there is toil and turmoil. In the waiting for resolution, there is wrestling and questioning. In the staying, there's a forced trusting in the Lord that you wouldn't find if you had just left at the beginning. I'm in a situation right now where I fee