Building Resilient Lives
Resilience bends, resists, lies down, won’t lie down.
It is a complex art and requires some measure
of maturity and may even be a gift of personality.
It comes to some and not others.
One doesn’t need to have been at the Battle of the Somme
to know whether you have or not.
Jesus said, ‘Take up your Cross and follow me’.
Your Cross may be staying at home or not getting
that prize job and still feeling worthwhile.
We grow resilient Christians by ourselves being cheerful, faithful,
hopeful and loving no matter who we may think doesn’t deserve it.
Let us regard (as the ancient Hebrews did) wealth in terms of the
necessities of life earned by the strength of your body through the generosity of God.
Just having wealth and not the gratitude may indeed lessen your resilience/power.
But remember the Lord your God, for it is he who gives you power to get wealth,
so that he may confirm his covenant that he swore to your ancestors, as he is doing today.
Deuteronomy 8:18
Survivors of gender-based violence have indeed learnt resilience.
Support of survivors is another area of work in Zone A.
We give thanks for the members who bring Christ’s love to those suffering in silence,
bearing social stigma and in need of shelter.
May their resilience bring survivors peace.