Finding Yourself After The Storm

One thing I know (at least through my readings and stories heard) is that when two countries (or village as it were) fights, one country after a while wins, but not until a lot of damage has been done to either of the lands. No war- great or small leaves a place the same. As a result of the aftermath, there would always be some forms of statues to raise back, monuments to rebuild, and of course, houses and shelters to provide, especially in a situation where the war was severe.

A look at today’s era, while it is true that to an extent (especially compared to the times of old), we fight no more physical battles as it were, one thing holds true- we fight still. However, these battles we fight do not consist of swords, spears and axes drawn or thrown in open spaces; it consists of our minds and our thoughts and the weapons we fight with as opposed to swords, spears and axes are- truth and diligence.

Why truth and diligence? Because majority of the time, these battles (though inside of us) are started with lies- the lies of our friends being better than us, the lie of us lagging behind even when we are not, and most especially, the lie of never being enough which sometimes forces us to do things we probably would not have done, just to prove (to ourselves most times), that we are enough. The degree to which we accept and process these lies as true often determines the severity or lightness of the battle.

Diligence on the other hand is needed to sit down with our thoughts and identify which is true or not. This is the part that requires us to be self-aware, as we can only fight these battles diligently with the truth we know about ourselves. These truths can be as little as knowing you are a girl, or as intimate as knowing you are never alone because your Creator promised never to leave you nor forsake you, as well as Him being a present help for you in troubled times.

Diligence as well will make us sit down and know substantial things about ourselves, so when the lies tumbles in, the truth we know about ourselves would thin them out. the question now is- how do we know these truths?

First is by knowing what your Creator says about you through the eternal manual He provided – the Bible, and the second would be by making reading good books an hobby; for it is not enough to understand the spiritual component of your being (which you would find in the bible), but also the emotional and physical aspect of your being as well, since man is a tripartite being consisting of the spirit, soul, and body. Knowing what your bible says would take care of your spiritual, being emotionally intelligent and aware would take care of your soul, and no doubt, having the knowledge of how to handle your body and take care of it would open you up to the physical.

As a result of all the knowing (via truth and diligence), finding ourselves and rebuilding our lives back (after the storm) as it should be would not only be easier (unlike if we had been clueless all along), but also worthwhile, especially in the case of battered self-esteem and shattered self-confidence.

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