It takes a lot of emotional durability to ride out a storm in hopes that Christ will calm it before you capsize completely. If you've ever seen the beach surf when it's really wild, you've seen just how overwhelming it can be.
On the beach, they put up signs to warn people not to go in the water where it's dangerous. Intervention. Sometimes our relationships need intervention, tough love, in hopes that the person headed for trouble will see these loving people holding a meeting with the intervener to tell the troubled person that they have a serious problem with substance abuse. You put up the signs and you hope they heed them.
We all have experienced the mysterious ways that God works, things allowed to go on that are unfair, evil, harmful, tragic. All we can do is pray for His perfect intervention, a right solution, or at least an understanding to help us bear what seems unbearable.
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