When there is unhappiness in your job

When there is unhappiness in your situation, differentiate between the ebb and flow of life and something deeper.

• If someone in particular is unhappy with you and giving you grief, is it temporary? Are they prone to periods of these attitudes, or do you think that this will continue unabated?
  
• Are you, your group or the church just in a bad place or is there something permanently evil in the situation? (The latter possibility is rare!)
  
• Weather and seasons make a difference – in my churches I have found January and February to be cranky months that simply need to be survived.