A tsunami can hit an island, a country without much warning. The devastation vast, lives are shaken, a disbelief, shock, fear and an almost frozen in time feeling I am sure comes over people. My brother and his wife were in the Seychelles in 2004 when a tsunami hit the Indian oceans and many of the country's around it. I remember calling the salvation army, posting on CNN wall to see if my brother was alright. But how many of us have taken a moment since that event to think about that Tsunami of 2004. So it is with life, often one thing comes after another like a tsunami. From job loss, divorce, death, sickness, becoming a widow, single mum or dad, or whatever else maybe going on, our lives are often like a tsunami. A tsunami often comes and then like in Japan and the Indian Ocean of 2004 an earth quake. Often people are there at the beginning it is fresh in people's minds but then the weeks go by and people either forget or they have other things to deal with.
The problem is like a tsunami, the clean up in our lives often takes a while.
There is no quick fix when a person is looking for a job or lost a loved one.
No quick fix for the mother who lost a child or a friend who lost there best friend to cancer.
If one thing I have learnt on this road, it is to be humble to ask for help. God is much bigger than me and often help comes from people and places you least think.
So life is a tsunami and we need to run the distance as friends, as humans and as an example to what the world should be about.
You may have a tsunami in your life.
It is finding hope, in a verse, in a song and a friend that makes the after mouth of the tsunami just a little bit easier to make it through.
I know we can all make it. It is believing in ourselves and God.
The tsunami will end and we will make it. I just know it.
Please have a cup of tea with me today.
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