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What is your response to panic-worthy situations?

Today I received heartbreaking news, one that meant I’d be going through a certain stressful process I thought I was already done with. More than the stress, it was going to be largely inconvenient.

It was upsetting. Blinded by the thought of what I’d have to endure, I remembered a message from my church’s ongoing program (FOH). It says, “The devil is in the business of ensuring you forget what God has done before, so as to hinder you from what He has in store for you.”

Yes, the situation looked bad. It looked impossible, insurmountable. But it wasn’t the worst I had survived. I have been in tighter corners that seemed to have no way out, and yet God showed up.

The thing about panicking, like I’ve said before, is that it consumes you. It makes you focus only on what is going on and obstructs you from thinking objectively.

Dearest reader, that quote really helped to calm me down, and in that moment I began to see one or two strings I could pull. In the end, everything was sorted out, and I didn’t have to go through any of the presumed stress that initially made me panic.

That’s what my boss would call a useless use of panic. Lol.

The point is, forgetting how far we’ve come sometimes makes it hard to see possibilities. Because really, like King Solomon said, nothing is new under the sun.

 In panic worthy situations, do you see possibilities? Do you remember how you surmounted more last time? Do you see or are you blinded by what is physically in front of you?

@favvy_Okwans🖤.