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WEDNESDAY WORD OF THE DAY
What to do When Your Faith Journey Takes a Mercurial Nose Dive
Recovery is Possible
The word “mercurial” means “changing often” or “characterized by rapid and unpredictable changeableness of mood.”
Have you ever felt like your faith journey is a bit too mercurial at times — changing often because life is throwing you curve balls? Stop for a moment and tell yourself that this is ok. That doesn’t mean that everything will be ok. It means that whatever is happening is happening.
Maybe you don’t have any control over what is happening. Maybe you do. Still, the curveball has come, disrupted life, and now you must deal with it.
If you’re in a season of disruption now, stop. Right now. Stop. Take a deep breath in and exhale. Do that slowly again and again and again.
You can practice meditation, mindfulness, and/or contemplative prayer, which I highly recommend, but sometimes life throws you a curveball so wide that you find your meditation and mindfulness time going flat, which affects your faith journey. You sit quietly in contemplative prayer while your mind swerves, jolts, and crashes like the waves. That’s the mercurial nose dive.
Be patient with yourself.
