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In church today, a woman sat beside me and she was clearly agitated.  How did I know this?  She proceeded to tell me how she felt excluded by a women’s church group and that her husband had questioned her choice of religion while he was driving her to church.  And as a result, she was in a bad mood.  I suggested that this was a good place to let all that go and focus on the next hour of prayer, community and contemplation.  She left early, so I surmise that she was not able to just sit back and relax into the moment.  Which led me to think about the times when I (because of that inner negative voice) transformed an experience from something positive and possibly enjoyable to the exact opposite.  And just who really suffered as a result?