a soap in the eyes sort of a morning

I think it's common sense that you should always avoid getting soap in your eyes, but sometimes it just happens. Like this morning, I was washing my hair, thinking about something else when all of a sudden my eyes were stinging like crazy and then I was so busy blinking and trying to stop the stinging that you can't focus on anything until the pain was gone... I've been thinking a lot lately about why it is so difficult to be obedient to something greater than yourself. I know that I am supposed to be obedient but I fear that my willingness to be obedient will take away the comfortableness I have created for myself-the fear then blinds me to the greatness of that call to obedience. But what joy is there in life apart from doing that to which we are called to do, especially in light of the the character of the one who calls us.
Philips Brooks says "The great danger facing all of us-let me say it again, for one feels it tremendously-is not that we shall make an absolute failure of life, nor that we shall fall into outright viciousness, nor that we shall be terribly unhappy, nor that we shall feel that life has no meaning at all-not these things. The danger is that we may fail to perceive life's greatest meaning, fall short of its highest good, miss its deepest and most abiding happiness, be unable to render the most needed service, be unconscious of life ablaze with the light of the Presence of God-and be content to have it so-that is the danger."