Tonight my wife and I had a great chat with another couple who has white knuckled their way through life, just barely hanging on at times. They have endured allot, over 30 surgeries on one of their children.
It is this kind of thing that you go into survival mode over, you grip the steering wheel of life so tight that your knuckles are white, but you hang on in a survival type mode. Things like one on one time with your spouse, or time for yourself are sacrificed.
At some point you realise the impact of the situation, whether it was health related, death or otherwise, it has had an impact on your own well being, on your emotions and perhaps on the relationships you hold dearest.
My wife and I have experienced this, things that we have grappled with and found excruciatingly painful to us, things that have put us in survival mode, these are things we eventually have had to face because they were tearing at us and having a negative impact.
2012 has been a year of facing things for us, a year of getting out of survival mode and facing the damage so to speak. Like in a car crash where the vehicles have spun to a halt, we have spun to a halt and now must survey the damage and move on.
For us it has been the stresses of life combined with several health issues and an uncertain future. For you it may be something different.
My challenge to myself and to you is to assess the damage and deal with it proactively before it is to late.
Let Go and Let God
Building 429 - Right Beside You
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