Job Layoff And Financial Loss Crisis - The Complex Components
Dismay: When you remember the last conversation in HR, anxiety and panic grab your mind.
Moments later these questions repeat in your mind, "How am I going to take care of my family? How am I going to pay my mortgage?" You may notice your heart pounding at an unusually rapid rate.
It's the normal first hours of a layoff.
Embarrassment: If you were given only moments to clean out your desk and escorted out of the office to your auto that scene might replay causing humiliation.
You might have heard about this happening to other people but now it's happening to you and it doesn't feel very good.
First Aid for your Mental Health: Get into Strategic-Prayer! Prayer takes the sting out of the first few hours after a job layoff or notice of home foreclosure when you are heartbroken.
Prayer that is specific for the issue of the moment is Strategic-Prayer.
"Being in great distress Lord, out of the depths of my soul I cry unto you.
" (Psalm 130, combined translations) The first few hours and days of a job layoff or lost finances, every part of your life is in turmoil; it's hard to focus on anything except the loss and how it's going affect the family.
The purpose of First Aid Strategy Praying is the immediate attention to a hurting individual or family, it begins the healing process.
When our family experienced the third financial loss and third job layoff we were devastated.
We had been accustomed to prayer, accustomed to applying God's Word to our life, nevertheless, when the layoff occurred we needed comfort and peace.
This prayer quieted our disquieted souls; " Lord, you are the strength we don't have right now.
We come to You in prayer because are the place where we can rest our brittle hearts.
" "God is our refuge and strength; a very present help in time of trouble.
" Psalm 46:1
Moments later these questions repeat in your mind, "How am I going to take care of my family? How am I going to pay my mortgage?" You may notice your heart pounding at an unusually rapid rate.
It's the normal first hours of a layoff.
Embarrassment: If you were given only moments to clean out your desk and escorted out of the office to your auto that scene might replay causing humiliation.
You might have heard about this happening to other people but now it's happening to you and it doesn't feel very good.
First Aid for your Mental Health: Get into Strategic-Prayer! Prayer takes the sting out of the first few hours after a job layoff or notice of home foreclosure when you are heartbroken.
Prayer that is specific for the issue of the moment is Strategic-Prayer.
"Being in great distress Lord, out of the depths of my soul I cry unto you.
" (Psalm 130, combined translations) The first few hours and days of a job layoff or lost finances, every part of your life is in turmoil; it's hard to focus on anything except the loss and how it's going affect the family.
The purpose of First Aid Strategy Praying is the immediate attention to a hurting individual or family, it begins the healing process.
When our family experienced the third financial loss and third job layoff we were devastated.
We had been accustomed to prayer, accustomed to applying God's Word to our life, nevertheless, when the layoff occurred we needed comfort and peace.
This prayer quieted our disquieted souls; " Lord, you are the strength we don't have right now.
We come to You in prayer because are the place where we can rest our brittle hearts.
" "God is our refuge and strength; a very present help in time of trouble.
" Psalm 46:1
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