What do wildfires, heart attacks, and drunken sailors share in common with anxiety?
They show up unannounced, and you never know what they’re gonna do.
That’s why a hiding place is the difference between stability and a nervous breakdown.
It is a domain for unlimited strength and clarity, an antenna for answers to your biggest problems.
Anxiety you can’t handle
I wish a mentor had told me when I graduated from college, “Son, you have a great future. It’s tremendously exciting, and the possibilities for your gifts and talents are unlimited. But, you need an atomic fortress when all hell breaks loose because it’s going to explode often and in ways you can’t imagine.”
On second thought, I’m glad no one told me that because I probably would have holed up on a sailboat in the BVI for the rest of my life.
Some folks say it’s never wise to camp by a river, especially one in the middle of “Flash Flood Alley,” where a historic flood in August 1978 and another in July 1987 caused multiple fatalities.
But I think it’s fair to say there’s no place in the world to camp without risks.
An old Spanish proverb says, “There is no home which does not at some time know its hush.”
Three decisive steps may set a healing course for anyone drowning in tragedy.
