Step #1 – Call Me.
July 18, 2013 Leave a comment
“Offer to God the sacrifice of thanksgiving, and pay your vows to the Most High, And call on Me in the day of trouble; I will deliver you, and you shall honor and glorify Me.” Psalm 50:14, 15 AMP
We had a difficult day at the factory yesterday and one problem was my specialty but I was consumed on another big issue. After almost 3 hours of troubleshooting, a coworker told me that they needed help. In my mind, I said “why did you not call me right away?.” In a matter of seconds, I was able to give him pointers of where to look and there it was, the issue was resolved. In another case, a coworker needed some of my help but instead of calling me first, he printed all the documentation I made and fixed the issue.
We have a pride. We don’t normally ask for help immediately. Part of us sometimes think that we can figure it out ourselves without calling for help.
Every other day, I get to watch a movie from Netflix or Amazon Prime during my 10mile indoor cycling to ease out the boredom of indoor training. The movie I picked was Prozac Nation http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prozac_Nation . Please be reminded that this movie is not suitable for kids. I’ve learned a lot about depression. There were things that I did not know about the illness that could have helped me deal with a friend long time ago. If you are a parent, a wife or husband or a friend and wanted to improve your knowledge of what depression is like, this is your movie. My depression before was only mild as it was triggered by an event and I could not really connect to people who has deeper problems so my counsel to a friend normally sounds like these-“you can make it”, “it’s going to get better”, “other people has much worst case than you are”, “it will go away with the passage of time”. Some of you might counsel like these-“let’s go have a drink”, “tell me about it”, “go on a long vacation”.
Some of our advices are valid. In the movie, I was waiting for something to happen. I normally watched the movie for 50 minutes at a time because I only needed it for my 10mile workout. So the next day, I completed the last half and I was still expecting that a friend or a family will come up with something that I was looking and helped Elizabeth deal with her depression. Towards the end, it was the medication called Prozac that aided her to find herself again. The doctor’s explanation was Prozac will give you “breathing space” so that she can function as a writer again and she did and became a good writer and wrote the book Prozac Nation.
The thing that I was looking for was a “call on God”. I wonder if we do that at the very first step of our troubles.
My advice now for a troubled friend or spouse or even myself when a disaster strikes – call on God first. It should be step #1 at all times.
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