How many times I have read this story and thought why is he running? Well that was stupid!! Doesn’t he know he can’t win?? The practical application is that we all do this in one way or another. We all think we know better. We all run!! We run from what we need to do. I am sure much like me you have aspirations of doing the right thing. But do we? I know I made commitments to bring some little people into this world, and I did that. Was it something I really wanted to do, not necessarily. I didn’t like being pregnant. I didn’t particularly like labor and delivery either and having a little needy human was not in my plans!!! The last one I struggled with. I wondered would I be able to love this baby. I felt inconvenienced by it all!! So the happy day arrived when she got her turn to come here and I ended up having an emergency c-section. That didn’t help. I had it all planned out too, but no I didn’t get it the way I WANTED IT!! When I woke up I had to wait to see this little girl…this all was making me quite frustrated. They brought her to me and one look, just one look and I was hooked to this little sweet lady who looked like an angel. She made every little frustration that followed totally worth it, so what was my problem??? Pride!! That was Jonah’s problem too. You would think that he would learn from the whale experience but no after he had saved many he got angry, the good thing was he did pray to tell Heavenly Father of his displeasure. He was really upset that Heavenly Father was merciful towards those people and he wanted to die. I have some circumstances in my life today that I can relate to that. I have certain things I have to do and as uncomfortable as I am having to do those things. I do it anyway, with a lot of prayer especially because of the pride that inevitably comes along! The thought of Jonah sitting underneath a pathetic tree for shade asking for death is what keeps me from giving up and getting upset. I have made a commitment with my Heavenly Father to do his will and I intend on keeping that commitment!