The Power of a Crisis

I’m reading a book right now titled The Power of Habit by Charles Duhigg and the most recent chapter was Chapter 6 titled ‘The Power of a Crisis.’  It talked about how sometimes a crisis causes an organization to reevaluate policies and procedures and habits they have knowingly or unknowingly instituted.  It caused me to think a little broader than habits though; allow me to explain.

Crises are very powerful forces, aren’t they?  On any scale, a crisis changes things.  Whether a teenager was dumped and she’s now going through her first relationship crisis or some huge humanitarian crisis on the other end of the spectrum, a crisis changes things.

Nothing is static in life.  We are allured into thinking that way in our day to day lives though if we’re not careful.  We think life will always be this great or this awful or whatever emotion we are experiencing in the moment.  Life is never that way.  Sometimes it takes a crisis to show us this.

For myself and most people I presume, crises have a way of showing us what’s really important in life.  We are all one phone call away from our lives being changed forever.  And yet we hold on to pettiness in the vain attempts to prove how right we are.  We hold onto unforgiveness as if the sins someone committed against us were somehow greater than the sins we committed against God the Father.