The underlying principle behind God leaving difficult people in your life is this: If a difficult person in your life needed a touch from God, God would never be able to send them to you.

So, why does God leave difficult people in your life?  What purpose could he have in leaving people that seem to be spiritual irritants to you?

David said regarding God, “Your thoughts towards me are as numerous as the sands on the seashore.”  Every one of those thoughts has the ability to rewire your brain.

Laying the axe to the root of the tree means our patterns and habits of response dictated by the formation of our brain must change.

My wife and I were great friends before we started dating. We spent a year developing a deep friendship before we became romantically involved. It took all of a week for the openness we had cultivated as friends to be challenged by pre-conditioned responses ingrained from past pain.

Imagine that your brain is like a forest.  There is a vast interconnectedness of leaves, branches, and underbrush.  You decide one day to carve a path through this forest.