Have you been through a crisis?

Here are some thoughts on how you can survive and work through it:

• Have a daily rhythm
• Set daily goals
• Talk to other people, use your Social Network. You can talk about the same thing seven times with seven different people from all walks of life and from different cities. Through talking, things get clearer and the pain will ease.
• Take time for yourself, do something that will relax you and bring you joy – go to a cinema, visit friends, visit a bakery for breakfast.
• Go to a forest and shout out any frustrations.
• Be active, get involved in a sport or exercise.
• Focus on new goals
• Be clear about what you need in the next 4 weeks, 3 months and 6 months. Moving to a new town or into a new home with new friends and a change of scenery will help you through your crisis. (Do not be impulsive.)
• Think about where you were before the crisis and ask yourself: Which of my goals in life are still attainable and do I still want to reach them?
• Reflect on the crisis: Why did this happen? Is there something I can do so that it doesn’t happen again?
• Involve God in all of this; ask Christians to pray for you; read the Bible; ask Christ to fill you with peace, new energy and clear guidance. 
• Be sober during your decision process. 
• Use the crises as an opportunity to change things in your life.
• Put the crisis behind you… it happened and there is nothing you can do to change it. Make the steps to see progress out of the trauma and onto new borders.

Some helpful passages to focus on in your time of crisis:

“For I know the plans I have for you, declares the Lord, plans for welfare and not for evil, to give you a future and a hope.” – Jeremiah 29:11

“I have said these things to you, that in Me you may have peace. In the world you will have tribulation. But take heart; I have overcome the world.” – John 16:33

Lean on God through your crisis. Find your peace in him.

Written by Christian Pälchen