Dealing With Disaster

If you have survived a disaster you are experiencing a strong emotional response.  It is called trauma. It is common and normal for all who experience disaster. 

Trauma is a response that overwhelms your ability to cope and causes feelings of helplessness.

It does not discriminate. You should not feel ashamed about the way you are reacting. Your reaction is part of God’s warning system that has been triggered telling you to seek safety and help. Help can be found in the practical and supernatural resources that are presented in this series.  Here you will learn to address your fears, doubts and emotions, and how to recover emotionally and spiritually.
 
I am writing this series in conjunction with the Trauma Healing Institute (bit.ly/3Vhbz5t) who has given permission to use their resources. 

​Right now you may find it hard to believe that you can be helped and healed. But it is possible. There is a hope.  There are many survivors.  One is Jeremiah. He found hope in God.

The thought of my pain, my homelessness, is bitter poison; I think of it constantly and my spirit is depressed.  Yet hope returns when I remember this one thing:  The LORD’s unfailing love and mercy still continue,  Fresh as the morning, as sure as the sunrise.  The LORD is all I have, and so in him I put my hope. Lamentations 3:19–24

David is another survivor.  He was betrayed and hunted like an animal. He described his trauma as being brokenhearted and crushed in spirit.  But he has good news for you based on his experience.
“The Lord is close to the brokenhearted and saves those who are crushed in spirit.” Psalm 34:18

You may not feel that God is close to you right now.  But he is.

Therefore, you can talk to him right now about your pain, your fear, your questions, your needs. He is listening and caring even if you don’t think he is.