The Many Faces of Resilience
Not only so, but we also glory in our sufferings, because we know that suffering produces perseverance; perseverance, character; and character, hope. —Romans 5:3 4
Resilience is another word for grit. You know—that special sauce that keeps you going when life throws more lemons than you know what to do with. Some days, you want to drown in them. Other days, you just sit in the sour.
My friend Nadia knows all about grit. Life knocked her down more times than I can count. At one point, her only option was a shelter—until some generous friends took her in.
She patched together four part-time jobs just to keep her finances afloat. And then, something remarkable happened. A family friend—connected to the spouse she separated from—heard she was struggling. She felt God nudging her to help. So she wrote Nadia a check each month, in the exact amount of the gap between her income and expenses. That’s how Nadia made it through. An angel, truly.
Even then, she kept bouncing back. Like Bozo the clown from Romper Room—remember that? You’d knock it down, and it popped right back up. That was Nadia.
Resilience isn’t just about bouncing back.
It’s about how we carry what tried to break us—
and what we choose to build from it.
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