It doesn’t have to be this way

I think one way of expressing the Gospel, the Good News of Jesus, is summed up in the phrase “It doesn’t have to be this way.” It’s the idea that what we currently experience isn’t the only option and things are not set in stone. There are other ways, often better ways. But we, for some reason or reasons, choose not to take on a different way.

Maybe we’ve gotten lazy. Or we are stubborn. Or maybe we’re tired. Or maybe we don’t have the capacity of envision how the situation could be different. Or maybe we don’t even know that it’s a possibility. Maybe we get the phrase, but…