Resilience

 I am amazed at the ability of a human heart to deal with the pain a life endures with relationships, loss, crisis, trauma, shock, and so forth. I was talking about this with my older daughter the other day, and she simply stated, "it is truly amazing how resilient the heart is." I agreed with her in complete awe of her insight and statement of that truth.

The definition of resilience is the capacity to withstand or to recover quickly from difficulties. I would like to note that sometimes our resilience is not "quickly recovered", however. I believe there are some events in our life that require more time to bounce back or bounce forward. The process of becoming resilient is quite astounding when you think about it.

Recently, I suffered from an infection on my index finger that appeared to be disfiguring it. For months, I watched the evolution. I saw it in the red enflamed and sensitive state, where it bled easily. I took two rounds of antibiotics. I saw my nail cuticle scab over in a black color. I was sent from my regular physician to a dermatologist for an evaluation. She said it suffered a trauma of some sort. Over the months, it was a very very slow healing process. It took that finger much time to become resilient. It still is not perfectly restored, even now, but it is definitely healing more each week and looks like it will be restored within a couple weeks from now. It has taken much patience on my part, and faith that it will heal. There have been moments I have had my doubts and wondered if the nail bed will always be disfigured. Now, I can see that it is trying to become a normal nail again.

If you are facing a trauma, a crisis, a hard time, and your heart feels as if it cannot take anymore pain, just remember, you are resilient. Your heart is resilient and you will get through this. Be patient. Have faith. Trust God. Trust yourself. You will be alright.

Side note:  My favorite country song is "Heart Like A Truck" by Lainey Wilson. I am just now realizing that the entirety of the song is about resilience. Maybe that is why I love the song so much.