Hello, thank you so much for joining me today for Give Him 15. We all face challenges as we

cope with these perilous times. Today's post coaches us on how to do so. It was written by

our friend Terry Brown, seasoned prophetic intercessor, but also one who possesses the pastoral heart of Jesus,

the great shepherd. Terry and her husband, Jack, pastor a wonderful church congregation in Colorado Springs,

Colorado. Her title is, coping with difficult times.

She says, Bonnie, our two and a half year old granddaughter, who is usually determined to keep up with her five older siblings and twin brother, was in our backyard playing in the snow.

She wanted something, so she started crying and complaining.

Grandpa Jack started explaining that big girls talk and say what they want and don't need to

scream and cry. He continued to explain to her that babies cry to get their way. He asked,

don't you want to be a big girl? She looked up at grandpa and firmly stated, I want to be a baby.

We all laughed, Terry says, but then a little later, I was contemplating the many tumultuous situations in our world and feeling a little overwhelmed by it all.

I saw that I had the same choice, either cry and complain or use my voice. It's easy to get discouraged with what we

are seeing in the news feed concerning our nation, other nations, or by what we're encountering

closer to home. In each case, we, like Bonnie, have a choice. We can, one, use our voices to seek the Lord,

make requests, declare his purposes, release wisdom, and when necessary, advocate for the

hurting. Or, two, in contrast, when things seem uncertain or desperate,

we can choose to step into a place of avoidance, putting our heads in the sand and avoiding

any responsibility to become involved. Many of us have well-worn paths to our place of avoidance. As Alicia Britt

Cole or Chole, I'm not sure how to pronounce that, states in 40 days of decrease, quote,

uncertainty is quite revealing. The unknown triggers different reactions in different hearts

and exposes our soul's defaults. Ambiguity reveals where we instinctively go to feel the illusion

of security again. In response to a yet unnamed but imminent storm, some hide, some run,

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