Pickin' up the pieces

There's nothing like a crisis is there? There's nothing like a crisis for bringing people together. Whether it be a family, a friend or loved one, you can't help but want to "DO SOMETHING" to help those in need.

When we look back today from all the scenes of 9/11 several years ago, we see the many faces and lives of our country that have impacted and touched our hearts all across the land. When I look upon the eyes of those who actually were at each building, I can't help but see how many people had to come together to help put everything back together again. The buildings that stood so magnificient there in New York reaching with majesty up into the sky were gone in a matter of moments. The lives of those on board those planes were gone in a matter of moments. Yet what stood strong was the people coming together as a nation without the concerns of race and color, or background, or even position. People appeared from so many places to reach out to those in need. A crisis of such magnitude really pulled people together. A crisis like a hurricane Katrina, or a tornado, or destruction brings lives together to build / re-build a place and a start a new. You just go picking up the pieces.

I am reminded of the children's rhyme - "Humpty Dumpty" and how he fell off the wall and was all cracked up into pieces and all the kings men and all the kings horses couldn't put him together again could they? We see all across the land how people come together to try to rebuild buildings and help others lives to start anew - yet sometimes when you fall off of that wall - you don't see how those pieces will ever be put back together in a crisis. It takes so long to clean up everything, and then it seems so long before there's anything rebuilt and then it seems even longer for the urgency inside of you to find comfort and peace. So how do people do it?

So many of the accounts and stories of 9/11 forever are etched in my mind. I am reminded over and over of where so many of them found their strength. So many of them clearly said that only through the Lord have they been able to move forward and to deal with all of the aftermath of emotions that flooded each of them. I wonder today where you are in your crisis?

Are you still hurting? Are you still in the brokenness? Do you feel like you can't see the light at the end of the tunnel? Well, there is hope for you today, just as there was for those lives touched and broken and wounded during the events of 9/11. There are many around you that love you and want to help you through your crisis whatever it may be today. There are many praying for you (myself included) that want to love you through it too. Deuteronomy 6:5 (NIV) says "Love the LORD your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your strength." When you feel like the crisis is about to overtake you, remember that you don't have to rely upon your own strength to get through it either. You are not alone. There are many with you who love you more than you know, support you more than you know, and want to help you more than you know. I pray that above and beyond the things of your crisis that you will allow Jesus to heal your brokenness and to find comfort in him. Yes, you may still have days of dispair, but you can start today to find wholeness. You have to take it just one day at a time and foot at time. Only through Jesus will you find the peace and comfort you are looking for today. Only through Jesus will you avoid looking like "Humpty Dumpty" and not being able to pick up the pieces. Take today to start new and fresh. Turn to Jesus and call out to him. He is mighty to save, so let Him help you "DO SOMETHING" - it's time to start where you are so you can pick up the pieces.

You are in my prayers today. God bless you.

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