A story was once told to me. One day as I was walking down the road I saw a dog laying on the porch of a man’s house. As I approached the man I heard the dog wimpering like he was in pain. So I asked the man, “What’s wrong with the dog?” He told me that the dog was laying on a nail. I stood there shocked at first and then proceeded to ask him, “Well if it’s hurting him, why doesn’t he get off the nail?” And the man replied and said, “Because it’s hurts more to get off the nail than to just continue laying on it.”
Hopelessness is a lot like that nail. As we sink into a state of hopelessness it hurts. And as we lay there, the pain starts to decrease a little over time to where we get comfortable with the pain, so comfortable to the point where it will hurt us more to try and get off of the nail than to just keep laying on it. So we just keep laying there.
You know, when we reach the bottom we look around us. We see that we are surrounded by walls and there is no way out. When that happens we need to stop looking around and start looking up. Because there is a way out, sometimes we just aren’t looking in the right direction. Sometimes it’s just not the way we thought. Sometimes it just looks impossible. Sometimes…
What you need to know, what you need to remember (even if it means writing it down and taping it to your mirrors, steering wheels, and doors) is that there are people who want to help you. There are people that want to see you regain hope, vision, and zeal.
We are here, ready to help you break the chains of hopelessness. But you have to make the choice. You have to make the commitment that whatever it takes, whatever might happen you are going to get off that nail because you know once you do then healing can begin.
We are here to help. Email us, info@rebuildingfamiliesfoundation.org, let us know if we can help you and encourage you. You can check out our site also, www.rebuildingfamiliesfoundation.org.
