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You feel like an cornered animal. You want your parents to stop fighting, and there is nothing you can do. You want your husband to be the good father your kids need, and he continues unfaithful or abusive. You have cancer.
Americans love — no, need — to have everything under control. What do you do when life spins out of control? Frustration boils over. How do you keep sane in insane circumstances? How do you tolerate intolerable acts?
I was falsely accused by an extortionist in Guatemala. It was a “big bad gringo takes
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advantage of a helpless Guatemalan” scenario. I was very much afraid I would be sent to jail, but since the accusations were utterly false, I would not capitulate to the extortion (If he pays $—-, I will drop the charges).
I fasted four days a week. I went to bed afraid the cops would come and get me. I woke up thinking the cops would pick me up.
Well, I got a lawyer. God defended me. Innocent I was, and I was found innocent.
Don’t run away screaming. Don’t cut your wrist. Don’t intern yourself in a mental institution. You need something to hold on to when your world tumbles down like the proverbial house of cards.
We Christians hold on to God. He is a friend and a lover. When everything you always wanted becomes everything you always feared, God will sustain you if you flee to him. You may be helpless to change unchangeable circumstances, but hopeless you are not.
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The way things are going in the US, we’re going to need this advice a lot!
Hopeless we are not!
Amen and Amen. God renews hope if we open ourselves up to receive it.
Amen! It is always discouraging to see that unbelivers react to distress as if there is not God and believers react as if they do not serve a God!
hey that’s a classy turn of phrase! kudos!
“How do you keep sane in insane circumstances? How do you tolerate intolerable acts?”
Your words here are beautiful, and the answer to them even more so.
Thanks. I was an English major, then a journalist. So words were my thing. I find that finding the right words puts me on the path to healing.
Thanks for sharing that great testimony…….we serve a nighty God!
Praise Him!
What a wonderful post. It expanded my heart! It came from the heart of someone who has lived it and still lives it!
Diane
hahahaha. I was trying to INSPIRE you to share of your heart and wound up inspiring me! Come on, Diane! The needs are so many, so great on this great desolate planet, that people need hope. You CAN do it today. You have been uniquely positoned, with experiences that no one else knows but many can relate to, to touch hearts!
You, too, Mike! Blessings!