************************* One thing is for
sure, in this the midst of our pains and problems, big problems are not
usually solved by suppertime, rather they are solved in stages.And
what we all have to learn, and often relearn, is to stop asking “Why?” and start
asking “How?”
Since big problems are usually made up of many smaller
problems, part of the answer to how is to face them in bits and snatches.
I can climb stairs one at a time. I can never leap all
the way to a second floor in one gigantic journey.
A simple
example; a farmer plowing a field that seems to go on forever is much better off
if he just deals with it one row and at time.
My first
cross country race could have been my last. The course was five miles long and
part of it ran through the city of Lynchburg. I felt as if I running up and down
all of this city’s famous 7 hills, not just the three that were actually
included. But I made it, and didn’t do too badly, because at the beginning of
each hill I mentally broke up the distance to the top into fifty steps, followed
by fifty steps, followed by fifty steps.
Actually, I was following
advice given in 1st Corinthians 9:24, “Therefore I do not run as a man
aimlessly, I do not fight like a man beating the
air.”
And with
my paralyzed arm, gained from my hang glider crash, when after the wreck I would
start to list in my head the gigantic negative that hovered over me... I broke
it up into little pieces…(the pain, the paralysis, what the future held, etc.)
and trained myself to deal with only one of them at a time. Otherwise, I would
have been completely overwhelmed.
First and foremost, I had to deal with fear because
it tried to paint some gruesome pictures for my future. I handled that by
praying, “Lord, make my arm well or teach me to live with a paralyzed arm.”
That lessened all the problems for I had approached both
possibilities. I had admitted things could get better. I had admitted that they
could get worse. Now I didn’t have to play games with myself.
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This New Series on
PAIN AND PROBLEMS began on this blog “Wyrick’s Writings” and will continue until finished.
Then a new Series on PRAYER will begin..
Each week there is a
continuation of the Serialization of his Internationally distributed novel RUST
ON MY SOUL. To view an abundance of unusual stories by Neil Wyrick go to his
other blog ONE A DAY, YOUR SPIRITUAL VITAMINS
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