you don’t need to go it alone…

we have been looking here on the porch at mary the mother of JESUS and some things she did when she heard that she was told by an angel that she was going to be the mother of JESUS.  she was overwhelmed.  she was but she did some things that helped her during this situation.  one of them was she let others help her out.

now this is the opposite of what we tend to do.  when people tend to get overwhelmed they start withdrawing from relationships.  they start pulling back.  they isolate themselves.  they say leave me alone.  i don’t want to be around anybody.  i don’t want to be near anybody.  let me cry in my beer.  let me hunker in a bunker.  i see it all the time.  people start to get a big problem in their life and they start pulling out of church.  they start pulling out of their friendships, backing away from the very thing they need the most in a crisis – other people.  they need other people.

just a thought from the front porch…