At times it is very human to view this world and its ills or, to look closer to home, our own human frailties. At times, the world around us and that world that spins around inside our heads can seem like quagmires and the sins that challenge us seem to beat us. As people of God, we have been granted a calling to “run with endurance the race that is set before us” (Hebrews 12:1).