When Life Bucks...
Dearest
Friend,
Please imagine
this.
You
climb into the saddle and put your feet in the stirrups. Your horse starts
walking slowly, progresses into a canter, then into a full-speed gallop. Of
course, you maintain your grip on the reins and watch the world's landscape rush
on either side of you, like river rapids passing the shore. This relationship between horse and rider goes
on for miles and days on end. You enjoy the breeze and the ride despite the
rough trail at times.
Until
one day—out of the blue—your horse starts bucking. Over and over, for no
reason.
You
tighten your grip on the reins and clench your thighs on the unruly beast. Why?
What prompted such a change? You don't want to fall off. Pain would surely
follow. How can you calm the horse down? You hold on for dear life, realizing
all the more, life is dear.
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Until
life served up one crises after another—not the average kind of issue but the
rock-your-world, better-hold-on-kind. Like the bucking horse.
And
the questions of why now, what changed, and how to stop the bucking are
endless. Your hands ache from the extreme grip on the reins and your head from
the constant whipping around. How much longer? And just when you think it can't
get worse, another crisis arrives.
I
wish I could say, "I understand what you are going through." But I
don't.
I
wish I could change these crises. But I can't.
I
wish I could take some of your pain. But it doesn't work that way.
But
I can tell you, "I'm here for you."
But
I can pray for you. Courage. Perseverance. Peace.
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Hebrews
10:23 NIV, "Let us hold unswervingly to the hope we profess, for he who
promised is faithful."
Hang
on to those reins, dear one. Better trails are ahead.
What
would you say to a hurting friend? How can we encourage someone in the depth of
despair? Please share. It may just change a life.
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