Oftentimes we find ourselves in those situations when
nothing makes sense. Even now as you read this, it’s simply one of those many
epistles people write just to make you feel good. You are hurt and your heart
is heavy. These times and such scenario are not for words, yet it’s all that we
can offer - comforting thoughts.
Do you know that the challenge you are facing is a path
others have travelled. And so what you retort. Okay, let us look at it this
way, this challenge is not new and even if it could have been prevented or you
are so undeserving of it; yet you must face the first path to recovery - It is
happening and it is real. Hmm! You see one of the things I have realized of
late is that the time it takes us to accede to the things playing out in our life
and not explain them away by some external or unknown forces, then the faster
and easier it is for us to draw strength to sail through it.
Whether our crisis are rooted in spiritual background or
they are a result of personal bias and truth we have failed to accept; we must
work ourselves out of the delusion of this cannot be happening to me. My
friend, it is a fluid situation, yet it is very true. Accepting what is
happening is not an evidence of no faith or losing the plot or failing to hold
onto the promises of God, it is a process you must follow in the grand interplay of
life events.
See, when we have something that seem very true and certain
and then the unplanned happens, when you accept the reality of the situation,
you conquer that part of you that will leave you denying the obvious. Now
whether you agree to accept to pass this phase or not, you will soon have to
face the part of things not been the way they use to be. How much you have
prepared yourself for this is never adequate for you will be broken. You will
wonder if anything has ever been true, in short nothing or so little will make
sense. Yet, if you have worked the acceptance part well, you will work this
phase well. Still we must agree that no amount of what you do here will make
anything go away; your perseverance is been tried and you must stay the period
if you want to see the light at the other side.
While it is true you may never come out of this with any of
the prior dispositions you carried into it, you must also learn to keep faith
with your earliest understanding of what is playing out. Don't be too quick to
lose hope. The truth you have always known or are learning with this situation
you are going through will be tested, it will be ridiculed, you will doubt it
many times over, but with truth, it is always self-evident, it will always rise
again, so don't fret or sweat it. Okay, perhaps you supposedly brought this on
yourself based on some decisions or lack of it. Maybe you are here due to
someone else's selfishness or the world is just crumbling around you for some
untold reason or the other. My friend, it matters that you understand that if
you can stay this discouragement, you will build a character that will surpass
what you have ever had in you.
Challenges toughen us and make beauty of our ashes. They are
the furnace wherein we are baked and refined into our most awesome
personalities. It may not suit you to make or take the steps you need to. You
may want to be left alone in your little world, and like we say allow time to do
its work. Still you must know, time is a neutral party in our life story. It
only affords us a window to do something to change the course of our life
history. So while it is correct to cry - not whine, it is very much correct to
begin to do the things you would ordinarily not do; engage yourself in making
the best of this bad situation. The interesting thing is that when you tell
your story tomorrow, this situation that seems so tumultuous and unshakable will make the story thick. Handling
the challenge becomes burdensome and discouraging when you want to define tomorrow
when all you have is today – so focus. Yet, remember not to make anyone pay for
the pains or loss you are going through. Never!
So are you discouraged? Accept the truth of that situation,
persevere, let the patience build the character and staying strength in you and
just wait in hope as your story unfolds for out of the belly of the bees comb,
sweet honey beckons.
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