What happens when our deeply human sense of fairness curdles into resentment? In the second message of "Overcoming Obstacles to Peace," Lori Alford opens with a question that most of us have been asking since we were children: why does someone else get what we think we deserve? Drawing on the parable of the workers in the vineyard from Matthew 20, she traces the uncomfortable path from entitlement to envy to the kind of bitterness that fuels injustice in the world.

With honesty and pastoral care, Lori names some of the most charged fault lines in our public life and asks whether our resentment, however understandable, is actually preventing us from doing the work of justice and peace. The good news is that God's grace is not a limited resource, and when we allow it to transform our hearts, we are freed to show up for our neighbors without needing to understand or agree with everything about their circumstances first.