Hurts And Frustrations

My wife is going through a reorganization in the job that she works at. The outfit she is working for is going through a down sizing and merging 300+ departments into a little over 100. Her specific workplace is putting four departments into one, and so the pressure is even worse than normal. Over the last few months, she has had to consider issues of retiring, of being promoted to higher position, issues of taking a lesser position and issues of finding herself out of a job completely with no insurance and no retirement. All the time that this is going on, she is expected to develop and make recommendations of how this new department should function once the merge takes place.

During the last week the hiring process has begun to take place. She applied for a specific job. She was recommended by her retiring CEO to make the application. She has had several people within the workforce tell her she should apply for the position. She did apply, and she didn't get it. The new CEO apparently hired from outside of the company to fill the position. She came home from work last night in tears and deeply hurt. And to say the least, even more confused now than ever about what to do.

Hurts and frustrations are a part of life! It is unfortunate that life is that way, but it is. We have to learn how to deal with them. Sometimes they are little hurts and frustrations that go away easily. Other times we have to dig deep and wait for them to go away on their own.

But Jesus says in Matthew 11:28-30, "Come to me, all you who are weary and burdened, and I will give you rest. Take my yoke upon you and learn from me, for I am gentle and humble in heart, and you will find rest for your souls. For my yoke is easy and my burden is light." When the hurts and frustrations of life are deep, we need to turn to Jesus. We need to give our burdens to him and let him deal with them in his way. Don't carry them with you. They are heavy. Give them to Jesus. He promises to give you rest from them.