What’s your reaction or approach? Predetermined plan or a ‘fly-by-the-seat-of-the-pants? Are you the ‘fix it’, whether or not you know what ‘it’ is? Assess? Do nothing (comparable to hoping it will just go away)? Seek someone who is an ‘authority’ to help you? What? Maybe none of those approaches is your particular ‘plan’, so do you know what is? This is the point – emergencies seem to be a fact of life for all of us, and depending on the focus of the emergency – what’s the plan?
As important as the ‘what’ of the plan is whether there are any other people that need to ‘come along side’. And again, I do realize that the issue/focus of the emergency can dictate the ‘who’ you may need to help you. But, do you have others to assist… or do you feel you can handle it alone… or do you feel that no one has the time to help (even when you don’t check)? Any and all of those may prevail, the point here is – what typically happens? Who is typically with you? Actually… do you ask for help?
Crises do not have to grow from emergencies, though they often do. An emergency may start out relatively simply and grow into crisis proportions, especially if we don’t address the underlying issue that initially created the emergency. However, most crises are always emergencies – needing to be resolved quickly and efficiently, sometimes with little grace. Undeniably though, most people face emergencies at some point in their lives – some prepare for the possibility, some don’t, and some end up facing one so quickly that they don’t have time to prepare. Granted, a great deal of emergencies don’t necessarily need to happen when you begin by taking the step of critical thinking – option planning and recognizing possible ramifications from taking a particular action… or not.
I would suggest that the majority of people think last of the person who will be of the greatest help, regardless of one’s plan. For we who consider ourselves Christians, this too is often our reality. Never sure why we do this… Whenever we see an emergency or crisis looming or find ourselves in the emergency, turning to the Lord to seek His guidance should be our first thought, rather than an in the midst of the trial ‘hail Mary’ prayer. The only thing stopping us from beginning with the Lord rather than attempting to pull in Him at the last moment is us. We should be training ourselves – scripture tells us to renew our minds (Romans 12:2) and to put on the new man (Ephesians 4:24, Colossians 3:10).
Emergencies, crises will happen but our emotional reaction as well as our intellectual mindset can determine how we will exit this ‘event’.
I would suggest that the majority of people think last of the person who will be of the greatest help, regardless of one’s plan. For we who consider ourselves Christians, this too is often our reality. Never sure why we do this… Whenever we see an emergency or crisis looming or find ourselves in the emergency, turning to the Lord to seek His guidance should be our first thought, rather than an in the midst of the trial ‘hail Mary’ prayer. The only thing stopping us from beginning with the Lord rather than attempting to pull in Him at the last moment is us. We should be training ourselves – scripture tells us to renew our minds (Romans 12:2) and to put on the new man (Ephesians 4:24, Colossians 3:10).
Emergencies, crises will happen but our emotional reaction as well as our intellectual mindset can determine how we will exit this ‘event’.
