Bad day: are you ready? 1

* Luís Alberto Alves

On calm days he never took Jesus seriously. Ethical, he never made vicious comments to Christians. Because of our 44-year friendship, I visited him and he willingly accepted a prayer. He told me that now everything was difficult. Up to 10 meters, his body interpreted as if he had been walking for miles. He lies for most of the day. Medicine disabused him. You will live on drugs until the day of death.

As I described at the beginning of this text, many Christians imagine that with Jesus everything will be easy. The difficulties will be far from us, as in the superhero movies that appear to beat the villains. Life is not like that. In several phases of it we will go through fights, some of them terrible, when we imagine that everything is over.

Is there a worse nightmare than unemployment? Especially when you're over 50? You try to sleep, but you can not, because the nightmare of debt torments you. The worries of the next day remain at your feet. You trigger your network of friends and find out that part of them wants to stay away from your company, precisely because of the "bad" day you are living in. Participates in interviews with HR professionals and receives the standard response: "We will contact you. Your excellent resume will be in our archives. " The disability syndrome seems to haunt you.

* Luís Alberto Alves is a pastor