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BAD THINGS HAPPEN AND CHALLENGES WILL ARISE (WHAT ABOUT MAKING A PLAN AHEAD OF TIME ON HOW TO HANDLE THEM?)

Let us be real here and face truth: Bag things happen.

Bad things happen to us.

Bad things happen to the people we love.

Bad things happen all around us.

Bad things happen in the world.

Yes. Bad things happen.

This is fact. This is truth. This is real.

Furthermore, challenges arise.

This is life. Things happen.

The question is, how will we choose to respond when bad things happen? How will we act when challenges arise? What will we do when the unthinkable happens?

Stop for a moment and ponder everything I just journaled. Take a moment to do so. Do not read ahead until you think on this. You might even consider journaling your thoughts on what you have read so far. And you might want to answer in your journal each question in the previous paragraph.

Do you think it might help to think about, and plan, better ways to handle each of the questions two paragraphs ago? Why not spend a moment to do so? Grab your journal and look at this for a moment. Try to plan ahead of time a better way to handle things when the bad or unthinkable happens. Try to plan a better way to deal with challenges that arise.

Now, have you thought of making these plans?:

- Breathe. Take several deep breaths.

- Pray. Ask God for help. Then, give Him time to tell you how best to respond and what to do from here.

- Recognize you are feeling strong emotions, but you do not need to act on them.

- Breathe and pray some more.

- Is this a moment of life and death? It likely is not since you are reading this when going through a hard time, a bad time, and/or a time of challenge. Therefore, you do not need to do anything right now, except breathe, pray, read the Bible, and trust God.

Then, think about doing these things as well:

- Take out your journal and write out your emotions and your thoughts, rather than acting on them.

- Read the Psalms.

- Open your Bible and read of similar situations (or a situation like this) and see if there is a biblical way to deal with this.

- Read verses that inspire you to trust Him, seek Him, draw close to Him, to listen to Him, to depend on Him, and so forth.

- Listen to some worship music.

- Read a daily devotional (or 50).

- Repeat all of the above.

- Then, do whatever God AND the Bible say to do.

In short (in summary):

- Pray, breathe, journal, read the Psalms, worship, and repeat these steps as often as necessary.

Because bad things and the unthinkable happens. And challenges arise.

Be ready to trust the Lord no matter what.

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