A crisis will predictably reveal our strengths, and what is often perceived to be our weaknesses. Those frailties might well be also understood to be work in progress, there being an awareness that our apparent shortcomings are nothing more than our acceptance that our life needs ongoing maintenance, enabling us to respond more ably to our life's daily challenges.
This morning I was speaking with a fire fighting team leader resting from his battle with a fire out break just a few miles from our community. Giorgos was elated by the success of his crew digging a ditch at breakneck speed acting as a fire break, sufficient to prevent the fire reaching a nearby village permitting the villagers to remain in their homes in safety.
Giorgos relayed to me the inspiration he was being fed from his interior awareness, how best to prevent the fire reaching the village. The firefighter understood that he was being directed by an unseen presence leading to success for his crew, and peace of mind for the village community.
Our inner inspirations are as likely to emerge during those periods when we are facing an immediate emergency as they are when alone, and in deep silence. I have learned from experience that the guidance we receive from Our Saviour during periods of overwhelming pressure are emphatic, revealing our absolute need to cooperate with the advice we are receiving.
Giorgos is also grateful for the ongoing efforts of the aircraft crews dropping water on the fast moving flames jumping from tree, to tree at lightening speed. Fighting fires needs team effort not lost on those villagers rather than fleeing their homes participated in the ditch digging rescuing their village from disaster.
20 Although the Lord gives you the bread of adversity and the water of affliction, your teachers will be hidden no more; with your own eyes you will see them. 21 Whether you turn to the right or to the left, your ears will hear a voice behind you, saying, “This is the way; walk in it.”
~ Isaiah 30
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