Myths women believe
Reading: 2 Kings 4:1-7
“For a brief moment I abandoned you,
but with deep compassion I will bring you back” (Isa 54:7)
6. I was mowed by a tragedy.
“I cannot survive this tragedy,” say women. Yes, you can rise up. When you are struck down by illness and catastrophe, assailed by grief, cheated or betrayed, a separation, loss or accident or a drifting marriage, that can turn your life upside down and extinguish your will to live. There were times when I too felt life was not worth the struggle. I have pulled through a lot of things. Now I rejoice because each tragedy taught me lessons and I am richer spiritually than ever.
Life has no guarantees. You have to take what life gives you and make the best out of it. Some weather tragedy with considerably more equanimity than others. Emotional upheaval can culminate in nervous breakdowns or suicides. So the first and foremost is to let yourself grieve. People may prematurely encourage you to jump back into the swing of things. Grief is reality. Take your own time. Crying, refusing to meet people, reluctance to go out are normal.
Grieving people are expected to bounce back within a year. Eventually you have to accept reality, beat the odds, face the challenge and survive. Get out of the shadows and start meeting people. Get together with similar people and form a support group that can reach out to people who are sailing the same boat. Learn new skills, may be computer or painting or anything that interests you. Exercises like walking can help you relax. Learn to enjoy life. Look forward, not backward. Don’t allow yourself to become a prisoner of the past.
It is hard when it is raining but the rain will ultimately stop and the rainbow will appear. We don’t cry because it is night, because we know the night will be gone and morning will dawn. Naomi wept at the fate that had befallen her. But she trudged through life to enjoy the bliss of a blessed old age. No woman in the Bible committed suicide. They all survived tragedies and most of them to a glorious future.
God picks the tough ones to deal with tough problems. May be you are chosen to have this happen to you so you can teach other women. You can take something horrible that happened to you and turn it around in order to help others.
So, another myth busted. You can stand the tragedy!
Dr. Lilian Stanley
13 Church Colony
Vellore 632006, India
+91 9843511943
lilianstanley@gmail.com
Blessing Youth Mission
13 Church Colony
Vellore 632006, India
+91-416-2242943, +91-416-2248943
hq@bymonline.org
www.bymonline.org
Click here for more options
To buy books written by Dr. Lilian Stanley, kindly reach to us in the follwing address
Blessing Literature Centre
21/11 West Coovam River Road,
Chintadripet,
Chennai 600 002, India.
+91-44-28450411, 8806270699
blc@bymonline.org
Myths women believe
Reading: 2 Kings 4:1-7
“For a brief moment I abandoned you,
but with deep compassion I will bring you back” (Isa 54:7)
6. I was mowed by a tragedy.
“I cannot survive this tragedy,” say women. Yes, you can rise up. When you are struck down by illness and catastrophe, assailed by grief, cheated or betrayed, a separation, loss or accident or a drifting marriage, that can turn your life upside down and extinguish your will to live. There were times when I too felt life was not worth the struggle. I have pulled through a lot of things. Now I rejoice because each tragedy taught me lessons and I am richer spiritually than ever.
Life has no guarantees. You have to take what life gives you and make the best out of it. Some weather tragedy with considerably more equanimity than others. Emotional upheaval can culminate in nervous breakdowns or suicides. So the first and foremost is to let yourself grieve. People may prematurely encourage you to jump back into the swing of things. Grief is reality. Take your own time. Crying, refusing to meet people, reluctance to go out are normal.
Grieving people are expected to bounce back within a year. Eventually you have to accept reality, beat the odds, face the challenge and survive. Get out of the shadows and start meeting people. Get together with similar people and form a support group that can reach out to people who are sailing the same boat. Learn new skills, may be computer or painting or anything that interests you. Exercises like walking can help you relax. Learn to enjoy life. Look forward, not backward. Don’t allow yourself to become a prisoner of the past.
It is hard when it is raining but the rain will ultimately stop and the rainbow will appear. We don’t cry because it is night, because we know the night will be gone and morning will dawn. Naomi wept at the fate that had befallen her. But she trudged through life to enjoy the bliss of a blessed old age. No woman in the Bible committed suicide. They all survived tragedies and most of them to a glorious future.
God picks the tough ones to deal with tough problems. May be you are chosen to have this happen to you so you can teach other women. You can take something horrible that happened to you and turn it around in order to help others.
So, another myth busted. You can stand the tragedy!
Dr. Lilian Stanley
13 Church Colony
Vellore 632006, India
+91 9843511943
lilianstanley@gmail.com
Blessing Youth Mission
13 Church Colony
Vellore 632006, India
+91-416-2242943, +91-416-2248943
hq@bymonline.org
www.bymonline.org
Click here for more options
To buy books written by Dr. Lilian Stanley, kindly reach to us in the follwing address
Blessing Literature Centre
21/11 West Coovam River Road,
Chintadripet,
Chennai 600 002, India.
+91-44-28450411, Mob:8806270699
blc@bymonline.org
