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  • Drama-Trauma

    September 18, 2008

    Effie Feeling Anxious

    Effie Feeling Anxious

     

    Drama-Trauma is the herbal remedy that I ordered the other day for my grand-cat, Effie.  She is a small cat who is having difficulty accepting her new roommate, our 140 lb Newfie, Sheba.  Sheba is only there temporarily, but Effie doesn’t know that.

     

    Sheba with a bone the size of Effie

    Sheba with a bone the size of Effie

     

     
     
     
     
     

     

     

     

     

          

     
            The information about it says: 

     Drama-Trauma is especially good for cats, but works for other animals as well. Use this blend if your pet suffers from anxiety, fear/panic, stress, inattentiveness, and if he/she has drama queen tendencies. This blend eases the ride on life’s rollercoaster and is very similar to the Rescue® Remedy blend sold for people.”

     

     I know a lot of people who could benefit from a spritz of this, myself included.  The world is especially crazy right now with violent hurricanes destroying homes and infrastructure and volatile financial markets destroying retirement funds and jobs. 

    This is kind of time that makes people question the essential goodness of God.  “How could God allow this to happen to me?”  we say.  But  this question fails to take into account the fact that it is not about us.  There is a bigger picture that we can’t see.  God is good, he is not the one that messes up our lives.  We do it to each other and to ourselves.  And the really bad thing is that we keep doing it again and again.  We find it hard to choose to live another way! 

    People and institutions get addicted to drama and trauma, it makes us feel important and like our lives have meaning.  How sad is that?  If you read the Bible, you know that to God everyone of us is so important and meaningful that he knows the number of the hairs on our heads.   

     

     

    Who else knows us that well and loves us that much?   Yet I know churches and people who can’t get anything done unless there is a crisis or conflict that forces them to do it.  Do you really want to live in that drama-trauma? 

     

     

     Why not live in the serenity of growing into all that God created you to be? 

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