I just read an awesome blog post by Paul Piotrowski. In his article, Paul discusses the sudden difficulties that arise in our lives as a “breakdown” and how a breakdown precedes a “breakthrough” .  The breakdown is a set of difficult circumstances or feelings or emotions or something that hits you all at once and it seems like you just can’t get out of it.

I have been going through a breakdown for a little while. I have been blessed to be able to still provide for my family during this time, but it has been harder lately than it has been in a long time.  A bright light that I have had in all this is that I have felt inspiration from God that success, real success, life changing success is just around the corner. I am grateful for this, when times get hard, I think back to that inspiration and it elevates my spirit again.

I really like how Paul looks at this situation in his blog. I am just getting ready to break through a big wall and it takes a lot of effort to knock down my “building blocks” so that they can be rebuilt or restructured. I have thought about this for a while, years before reading the wise words from that blog in fact.  About 8 years ago Jennfer and I  began to see our children going through “breakdowns” and “breakthroughs” at different times in their lives.  It seems like every 6 months or so our kids kind of freak out.  In researching  it, we learned that human development is like a building that was built of blocks.  When you build a block castle with a set of 20 blocks and get it just perfect, then suddenly somebody gives you another 20  blocks, you can’t just build onto your existing structure.  You will likely have to tear down what you have, and taking your knowledge and experience in building the first one, now you will build one that is twice as large and beautiful.

My kids are amazing people, when this happens to them, after we get through the breakdown (this can be very painful) things are so much better.  As with them, I know my own life is about to be amazing, because I have been in a larger than normal breakdown.  But I am learning so much during this breakdown.  So much more than I ever could have learned without it.  As painful as it has been, I am thankful to God for giving me this opportunity to struggle and learn so that my “structure” can be rebuilt and I can be a better person, more successful and more in control of myself.  I am so excited to see what things will look like when the rebuilding is done.

Eric

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