Navigating TransitionSample

Signals of Change: Discernment

Train me, Lord, to press the pause button before reacting. In that pause I ask for Your wisdom and guidance.

Viktor Frankl’s experience in concentration camps led him to identify that one key aspect of being human is that, between stimulus and response, there is a space. In that space is our power to choose our response. That choice, for Nehemiah, was shaped by using the space to mourn, fast, and pray before taking action. Strong emotion may be a signal for change, but in the ‘pause’ we ask for God’s wisdom to shape and direct our response.