Dealing with the Aftermath

If you are like me, you have never really experienced a REAL natural disaster. Sure, I've been through a few pretty intense thunderstorms and had tornadoes hit pretty close to home, especially recently, but compared to the earthquakes, tsunamis and storms that have rocked the world lately, I can not say that I have seen disaster. However, if there is one thing that I truly know about and have experienced, it is an emotional disaster, a faith shaking, confidence crumbling emotional storm of enormous proportions!

I have experienced some very REAL emotional disasters in my life. I have had my whole world turned upside down and made right again only to face more devastation...somewhat similar to the foreshocks and aftershocks of an earthquake.

An aftershock is a smaller earthquake that occurs after a previous large earthquake, in the same area of the main shock. If an aftershock is larger than the main shock, the aftershock is redesignated as the main shock and the original main shock is redesignated as a foreshock. Aftershocks are formed as the crust around the displaced fault plane adjusts to the effects of the main shock.

When I am just beginning to recover from a major change, it seems that my new found peace of mind triggers an emotional aftershock of some sort or another. I know why this happens...It happens because my positive adjustments to life's difficulties really tick Satan off! He can't stand to see me succeed, so he has to kick up some more dust. He has to pour salt in the wound; he has to keep me in chaos!

Well, I have had enough!! I may cower for a moment, but I am a survivor! I am an heir...and my Father has something greater that He wants to make out of all of this! So, I will stand back up and I will listen and learn. I will learn to see the beautiful thing that the Father is making out of the aftermath of emotional disaster...out of the dust of my life!