Day 2:The Adrenaline of Peace

What is the difference between the Peace That Passes All Understanding and Adrenaline? I asked my counselor this last week. 1) Yes, I’m seeing a counselor; I got stuff to work out and 2) o.k. so I didn’t really ask this question of her in so many words. I was thinking about God’s peace though when I relayed to her how my mother had gone to the hospital last week by ambulance and throughout her 24 hours stay and into the next 72 hours I did not, even once, shed a tear. How does this happen? How does someone who has had several months of emotional meltdowns not freak out when her mother and  her best friend is going through this situation? At first I was at a loss.

So, the counselor said that the urgent situation may have required my fight instinct (jolly good for me I fought, instead of curling into fetal position). She said that that adrenaline response can actually last for up to 72 hours and that I should just keep tabs on monitoring my emotions as they may catch up with me eventually when I realize the immediate crisis is averted.

The way that I see this "phenomenon" is:  God granted me His strength, His peace, and His faithfulness throughout the experience. It was real. It was good. I give thanks. Even if this peace was an adrenaline response, what a brilliant, good and gracious God for creating such a complex and naturally self-caregiving body for me.

It’s times like these that give me Hope in living as a child of the resurrection.

(Well, now that was a ton of personal sharing in one small-ish post, huh? No worries, I'm transparent like that.)