Comeback

Football players have comebacks from ACL knee surgery, and racecar drivers have comebacks from nasty wrecks.  Put simply, a comeback is the process of working your way back up from some type of ass kicking in life.  It happens to all of us.  We get knocked to the ground from some situation.  We experience a physical injury that takes us out of our workout regimen.  We go through a breakup that takes a huge emotional toll on us.  We lose our home in a fire.  We lose our faith for whatever reason. 

When we get knocked to the ground, we tend to stay there for a bit languishing in the event and pondering on what put us there; however, a point in time comes where we have to make a choice: stay there or get up.  Staying there is easy, as it requires no effort.  Getting up takes work.  The event that knocks us to the ground is not near as important as the sequence of events that lifts us back up. As Joel Osteen says often, “Every setback is a setup for a comeback.”