Excuses or Resources?

January 16, 2020

by: Paul Bishop, MA,LPC, LPC/S - Director

In hard times people generally take one of two approaches. Some look for a way out and some look for the way through. 
For the way out, people need and look for excuses. Excuses for why it can't be overcome. Excuses for why it's not worth trying. Excuses for why we have been hurt too badly to ever try again. Excuses give permission to run, avoid or give up. An excuse is an attempt to be released from potential responsibility.

The other approach is to look for the way through it. The way through it implies a tough road, but a commitment to travel it successfully. Getting through it involves looking for resources. Resources can help deal with reality. It isn't a way to avoid it but a way to embrace it. Resources come in the shapes of people, books, Scripture, songs, hobbies, meetings, gyms, counselors, support groups, life groups. Resources keep you from running & get you beyond what you fear. 
Are you tired of being stuck? The only way to get past something is to go through it, not around it. Isaiah 43:19 says “I will make a way in the wilderness & rivers in the dessert!” The rivers and roads are the resources to get through it, but you still have to follow the roads and navigate the rivers to get out of the wilderness and beyond the dessert that you may be finding yourself in. Start looking for resources to get through it and not excuses to get around it