Faith Venture

The ability to recover from something that distorts you. 

Many companies write to me about their new technologies or applications or also how well they are doing. A word has become one of the marketing terms du jour. Resilience.

They wish to convey that they are a resilient company producing resilient products that will make their customers, well, resilient.

So I thought, how does that apply to each of us? What does it mean for us to be resilient? How can this be acquired, if indeed, it is a quality that can be acquired?

My life has experienced many bumps. Events happened to distort me. Bend me. Cause stress and grief. Yet, I have (so far) recovered like a good foam mattress.

To recover implies that there is a good place to which to recover. Press on a piece of good, dense foam and release. It will recover to its original shape. 

We must have that firm, original shape to which to return. If we are too pliable, we will remain in the new shape. If we are too firm, we will break.

Just so in our spiritual and emotional lives. We must be able to absorb any shocks and yet have that inner strength to regain our shape. Too brittle, we break. Too soft and we just blow with the prevailing winds. That calls for a solid foundation in teaching, experience, and spiritual life.

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