To A Grieving Church And Country "The Fall Of Afghanistan"

America is going through the grieving process over the current events taking place in Afghanistan. And there are five steps in this process the last of these being Acceptance. But the only way to get to acceptance we must go through steps 1-4, there is no other way to get to Acceptance.

The first step in this grieving process is Denial, We can't believe this happened. We cannot believe that the Afghan Army that we spent almost one trillion dollars to train some 300.000 troops and arm them with superior weapons fell in just 11 days to the Taliban army of only 60 to 75 thousand spread out all over the country. But denial, in the end, does not give peace.

The second step in the grieving process is Anger. We become angry and we search for someone or something to focus our anger on and blame for this situation we find ourselves in. We say if you had done this or that we would not be in this situation. But no matter how mad we get the situation remains the same.

The third step in the grieving process is Bargaining. That is when we say if we had just done this or did that this way we may have prevented this from ever happening in the first place. We begin to wonder what could we have done differently to avoid this outcome? But no matter how many what if's we come up with the situation yet remains the same.

The fourth step of the grieving process is Depression and it is the most dangerous part of the grieving process. When we come to the realization that there is nothing we can do to change the situation or circumstance we enter into depression. We become overwhelmed with a deep sense of helplessness and we become heavily burdened with the weight of despair. But no matter how sad we become or how long we hang our heads down and cry the situation that depressed us in the first place remains the same.

The fifth step in the grieving process is ACCEPTANCE! Acceptance is when we get to that place of accepting the things that we cannot change and we trust it to God and that is when God grants us Serenity (peace in Him). We also gain the wisdom to know the difference between things we can change and those things we cannot change. We've learned going forward that when anything grieves us that we can do nothing about, we cast that care onto Him because He (Jesus) cares for us.

Finally, Grief cannot be defeated with Denial, Anger, Bargaining, or Depression, it can only be DEFEATED with ACCEPTANCE of what God has allowed and the recognition of our inability to solve it.

Trust In The Lord Jesus With All Your Heart And Recieve His Peace

John 14:27 "I am leaving you with a gift-peace of mind and heart. And the peace I give is a gift the world cannot give. So don't be troubled or afraid.

By Pastor G. M. Overall aka Pastor O.

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Pastor O.

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