By Jonathan Martin, Excerpted from How to Survive a Shipwreck – faithgateway.com
You’re Still Here
The first things overboard when your ship wrecked were all the reasons you ever
had for sailing. And when the life you knew is a life you know no longer, and
the ship that took you on a thousand adventures before can no longer even keep
you afloat, you are right to wonder if there is anything left worth having.
There used to be so many things that we could not live without! How could you
live without this person? How could you live without this job? How could you
live without this relationship? How could you live without this house? How
could you live without your dignity? How could you live without your good
reputation? And then death came to someone you loved, or you lost the job, or
you sabotaged the relationship or felt your love sabotaged you, or you suffered
public humiliation, or you lost your all-important sense of honor. And you
thought you really would die.
There was a part of you, maybe even a really large part of you, that really
did. There are some losses that in their way mark you forever, and some things
you never get over. And because you loved this person or this life and career
you built, or valued your dignity, when the bow broke, everything in you
screamed. While the sails were ripping and the boards splitting, you heard the
sound of your spirit dying. The life you had was over. But to your own shame,
you were not over, as much as you may have wanted to be.
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