What happened?
Something happens. People are involved in the happening. People observe the happening. People will get impressions on the happening.
From there different narratives will be developed on what happened. Some will come together neatly and depending on those involved, it will become the accepted story for what happened.
The way the happening is related can sometimes have effects on those involved. It could send some into a tailspin. Ever lower self-respect, a sense of being a failure, a feeling that nothing that is done can go right.
This is why it’s good to have wise people around you to help you understand that whatever happened and however the narrative is spun about what happened, it does not have to be the final word on who you are. There can be a greater word that emerges from the situation. A word of forgiveness. A word of mercy. A word of redemption. A word of hope. A promise of the presence of consolation. A promise of a comfort to give strength and guidance.
Something happened. That can be the opportunity for something more to happen, something better to happen.
If we have the eyes to see and the heart to receive.
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For His Name’s Sake
Shalom
C. L. J. Dryden
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