Family Crisis

This last week we talked about the ABC's of how to react to a family crisis.  it is the following:

A- Actual event- this means what actually happened
B- Behavioral response- How one reacts or responds to the situation
C- Cognitions- The way one thinks about it, how they percieve that others are thinking to it, etc.
          
X- The complete experience, and all the above put together to create the entire experience.

Now knowing these things it helps me reflect and to realize the ways me or others in my family were or weren't handling the current situation. 

I really believe that Heavenly Father gives us harder challenges after previous ones we have experienced.  If we take apart each layer of the crisis in the moment then it may make more sense when all the factors add together.  If we can think, "why is this person acting this way? or reacting this way?" then it seems to make us have a little more patient with the situation and the people involved.  And if we recognize the learning we have gained, and the experience we have gained as well then when the next problem arises, although it may be even more challenging, we will see it only as a stepping block to get it closer to our Heavenly Father and to help us in our journey back to him.

I want to make it a goal to reflect on the challenges I have gone through, what was good about how I reacted and what wasn't. And what could I do in the future to learn more and grow more, and accept the Lord's will better in all things.