Here is a hard question to start your day: When you look at the world around you, do you see yourself as the victim of its brokenness, or a contributor to it? We all like to think of ourselves as the flowers in the garden of life: adding beauty, color, and value. But what if the true reality is something far less flattering? What if, in the eyes of the One who owns the garden, we aren’t the flowers at all? What if we are the pests? Today, we are going to confront a desperate reality about our nature that we usually try to ignore, and we’ll discover why "trying harder" to be good is a strategy doomed to fail.