Fire

 Enormous effort is being made to put out the wildfires in California.  But this is not the only fire that some people try to put out.  People in recovery and Christians have the fire of recovery or baptism.  Their life is supposed to change for the better.  Though this fire is within and good, some people don’t like it because it rubs up against self-centeredness.  If you are hanging round with people who are basically all about themself, and you start to change with this inner fire, they don’t want you around unless you go back to what you were.  Recovering people know this about their “former” drinking buddies.  Christians might know it by people asking, “Why are you wasting your time going to church?”  Meditators of any path might be asked if they are still doing that meditation thing.  But whatever, let us keep the fire burning within and pray for the end of the fires burning outside.