How to Pull Yourself Together When Life Is Disrupted
Now, I'm speaking to you today, and you are a Christian, and that means that you see all of this a little bit differently than people in the world. People in the world lament that there are no sporting events taking place, that their…
Notice what happens between people
Now, I'm speaking to you today, and you are a Christian, and that means that you see all of this a little bit differently than people in the world. People in the world lament that there are no sporting events taking place, that their seniors are going to miss their graduation ceremonies, that there could be an economic fallout for decades to come.
And while those things may be of some concern to you, instead you look at all of this as an opportunity.
Listen beneath the surface
It is perfectly ridiculous to go about whimpering and drawing long faces because the scientists have added one more chance of painful and premature death to a world which already bristled with such chances and in which death itself was not a chance at all, but a certainty. This is the first point to be made, and the first action to be taken is to pull ourselves together.
If we are all going to be destroyed by an atomic bomb, let that bomb when it comes find us doing sensible and human things praying, working, teaching, reading, listening to music, bathing the children, playing tennis, chatting to our friends over a pint and a game of darts, not huddled together like frightened sheep and thinking about bombs.
Choose a better response
so in these last several minutes that we have together, I want to give you a little checklist that you can follow each day, and I hope it's built in a way that you can remember it, so that you can self-analyze am I at peace like God wants me to be at peace? Am I learning things through this that genuinely make a difference?
And when I first put this list together, there were four pieces that made up the word pure, P, U, R, and E.
Practice it in real life
When we all get through this and we're looking back on it, let's look back at how much we loved each other and how that love is what kept us working together even when we were making very difficult decisions. If you want to make the most of the time that you now have and the circumstance that you're in, if you want to see your attitude or the attitude of someone you love get better, remember these six things.
Pray, utilize, read and encourage, laugh and love.
Take the idea with you.
- 01Where does the central idea of “How to Pull Yourself Together When Life Is Disrupted” show up most clearly in my life right now?
- 02What does this episode call me to believe, stop, start, or handle differently?
- 03What is one specific action I can take today instead of merely agreeing with the idea?
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This article was adapted from "Pull Ourselves Together". Continue with the podcast for the original teaching in Kris’s voice.
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