In Time of Crisis.

 What we do in a time of crisis greatly reflects our own personal values and beliefs. In a crisis, things happen almost way to fast, in that we almost default to who we really are and what we were brought up to believe. It’s hard if not impossible to reevaluate your faith, or beliefs when the crisis hits, it’s sad but it’s true, and when the crisis passes we usually are the same in our beliefs as when the crisis hits. This doesn’t mean that there is nothing we can do to get through a difficult time or crisis, how we act in it, usually determines the kind of outcome we have after it. 

We have a role to play in our own crisis, and of course so do other people, this is called crisis intervention. However, how we respond inwardly and if possible outwardly usually determines the outcome. It may seem like the outcome is fixed, but I would say in a crisis don’t be too concerned about the desired outcome, just play your role as a human being as best you know how, because in the end you will have to accept the choices you made which were part of the difficulty you experienced. 

If time is on your side, you can always go back, and fix those things that you didn’t have time to fix because you were in the middle of making snap decisions, but sometimes there were real consequences to the choices we made in a crisis, so faith takes a real place in the time you have afterwards, but more importantly is getting through the crisis now, and looking at the situation in a compassionate way helps. If we can see our experience in a self-compassionate way, the chances at not making the crisis worse is better. 

Seeing God as a forgiving and even a helpful God, may make things better for us as we live through the outcome of the crisis, and praying that whatever good is still left would stay with us helps too. We eventually can look at our situation in a positive way, and of course learn from our mistakes if we can. This is Mike.