The U.S. election didn’t turn out the way I wanted it to turn out. A number of my friends slipped into a funk. I told them, “You’ve got 48 hours to enjoy a pity party before I call for an intervention.” Seriously, who thinks life if easy hasn’t had a good dose of reality. Stuff happens. If the cause is just, a setback is only a source of greater motivation to press forward. Teilard de Chardin, Jesuit priest and anthropologist wrote, “”It is through struggle and effort that man advances, not by means of some fantasy of instant transformation.” Embrace the struggle.