Someone in crises

Gwen Randall-Young

August 7, 2024

We think of our world as fairly static; everything in its place. We build our world, as much as is possible, to our specifications. If things get out of line, we try to correct them. Often stress and frustration are proportional to the difference between what we think should be, and what actually is. But we deal with it, continuing to attempt to control our lives.

Then one day, something may happen over which we have no control. Someone is laid off work, or there is a death, illness, or a marriage is over. Suddenly, our world, as we knew it will never be the same. And so there is grief. There may also be anger, resentment and even a loss of faith. Sometimes it is difficult, even impossible, to imagine how our life will go on.

I am reminded of the little chick inside the shell, who must surely feel that his world is crumbling. In truth, the secure world in which he had been living is crumbling, and he can never go back there. But with each crumbling, a new, more expanded world is opening up.