Another Solider

It was not snowing this afternoon as it had been this morning when I walked to McLaughlin School to be present as the kids are getting out of school in the afternoon after two more attempted assaults against the children. Another neighbor was up there so I stood with him and he and I greeted the kids as they came out and he would joke and kid with them I would follow his lead and joke with the kids.

I had skipped Ladies Fellowship today because I had been napping and when I woke up about one I didn't feel like waking up so I just slept some more and then walked up to the school. It was a nice walk, cold, brisk, but little to know wind and nice. But as I came back by the church there was the ambulance and fire truck and knowing the group there I started going through the list of those who had not been feeling well lately but as I came up to the door my friend was coming to her car and told me who it was.She needed to take her mother-in-law home so I told her to pull around front and I would bring her out to the car so one the other of the ladies and I did that.

I started reading a book by Gordon McDonald entitled, "Who Stole My Church?"  and the conversations in the book I could hear come from many in the church I attend and it is really striking a chord in me.

I stopped over to our Pastor's house on my way home to check on him and as we talked about the group of ladies there he mentioned how resilient they were and that struck a chord in me and he is so right. The senior group of people at our church are very resilient and how they bounced back from so many of the valleys and twists and turns of life.

I wonder how did they become that way? How do we bounce back? I also wonder what happened to my resiliency? Did I every really have any or was it just me bluffing? Is it possible to get resiliency back? What plans does God have for me and why am I in a place where the saints are so fragile?