THERE IS ALWAYS A WAY !

THERE IS ALWAYS A WAY! So what is it? I don't know other than I know there is always a way! I have faced times like these with a few added ingredients made to sour and I am here today to tell you, 'THERE IS ALWAYS A WAY!'

That sounds like a great bumper sticker and pius platitude but it doesn't pay the bills, make sure I still have a job next month and it certainly doesn't make me popular with the family.

I think the first element of what it is I believe is that we need to believe, THERE IS ALWAYS A WAY! One way or the other, THERE IS ALWAYS A WAY! This is not a happy thought but a reality. If you are alive and breathing and reading this blog, you have found a way, at least to this point. I don't know where you have been, what path you have taken, what odds you have fought against. What I do know is that you found a WAY!

How are families coping with all the stress? How do we hold our families together in times like these? Some families are not and are breaking apart at the seams.

I met with an old friend last Friday who is graciously giving me his time and expertise to help me with my business. He is a well known businessman on the Eastside. He told me over lunch that a developer friend of his knew six men, who owned construction companies, that had committed suicide recently. I wondered about the families left behind and the devastation of wives and children. I have continued to think about that this whole week. I kept thinking about what I could do to help and what I could have done if I had the opportunity to speak to these men and their families. What would I have said and done? I would have told them, THERE IS ALWAYS A WAY!

The economy is beyond anything we could have ever imagined. People have lost their jobs. Some have lost their life's savings and retirement. Families have lost their homes. The whole world seems to be in crisis. THERE IS ALWAYS A WAY!

So if, THERE IS ALWAYS A WAY, how do we find it? It is said the 'Necessity is The Mother on Invention'. God has given us minds to think, emotions to respond and feel, friends and family to support and be supported by, the capacity to pray and ask for guidance; we lack nothing. It is in times like these that we have to rely on and use those God-Given Strengths He has endowed us with.

We have to ask how we can meet the needs of others who are desperate for those Strengths we have to offer and give. What unique capacities or Strengths do you bring to this crisis? What Strengths have enabled you to survive through other tough times? What depths have you been in and managed to rebound from? What do you know about, THERE IS ALWAYS A WAY!

THERE IS ALWAYS A WAY! If that is true we cannot give up. We cannot take exits from life that leave those we love to fend for themselves without our presense and Strength. For each one of us we need to think seriously about what we have and what it is we can invest in an economy that has been financially devestated. Human capital, YOUR UNIQUE STRENGTHS, invested in the lives of other people is the surest way to navigate throught this recession.

THERE IS ALWAYS A WAY! I know that because I know that. I Know that because I know God made us strong enough to rely on Him and He also constructed us with the capacities to bear whatever comeS our way. Don’t give up. Don’t throw in the towel! THERE IS ALWAYS A WAY!

Please share your thoughts and what you know about finding a WAY!