Where God lies in the face of tragedy

In the city of Kerrville in Texas, at the beginning of this month, they believe in the tragedy while rebuilding the destructive floods in Kerrville, now unrecognized houses, surviving houses and community livelihoods together.

The Liberation Army Corps officer in Texarkana III. “We cannot measure the support we are trying to offer to someone by just allowing them to cry on our shoulders.” Captain Juan Gomez said Captain Juan Gomez. He said. “This is not something I can measure for some people.”

Last Friday, Gomez received a call to ask if he could get away from his duties in Texarkana to support the people in Kerrville. Without thinking, he temporarily accepted and served as an emotional care officer by providing support to the survivors.

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“We’re talking about the loss of life, we’re talking about the loss of home. These people who need to find a new norm, their daily lives are completely broken,” he said.

It is difficult to label it as another natural disaster when there is much more than that, since it does not begin to caprate families whose heart is broken through Kerrville. One of these families is Bolton.

Kerrville resident Buddin Bolton lost his house. However, until he remembered that his neighbors were washed, he tried to drown in his own words, to resist tears, to try not to pass him in a fox weather report.

Licensed marriage and family therapist Keneth Howard explained how trauma reactions can change. Families who lose a child will have processes that mourn differently than those who lost their homes or car. However, having faith allows him to push his days a little better.

“There is flexibility to allow some people to be anchored in a belief, a community,” he said. “Since people do not have any of these flexibility, they will take different air and suffer.”

Howard said that access to trained professionals, especially in trauma -oriented methods such as EMDR, can also reduce the risk of PTSB. Moreover, as a Christian, he emphasized that organizations such as the salvation army will build strong “interpersonal connections” and lead to the healing of communities with their trauma.

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Ashton, son of Buddon Bolton, reflects the concrete relationship on the therapeutic and religious outlets in Kerrville and how they intertwine.

“I think therapists reach us, but I believe that we all have our spirituality and our problems with the Lord.” He said.

Ashton said he felt that we could not reach anywhere if we try to fight our problems alone. Just having a shoulder to cry to release the weight of the grief is a long way. For him, all he had to chat with a distant relative and hugging.

“He didn’t let me get the burden I found. He didn’t let me do it alone,” Ashton said.

Gomez can establish a relationship with Ashton because he experienced it.

In August 1999, Brett Hurricane took over Texas, developing winds that reached more than 194 miles per hour and caused 15 million dollars damage. 16 -year -old Gomez witnessed his destruction from the first hand. When his grandmother encouraged him to support him, he had his first interaction with an organization like the Independence Army.

Gomez was surprised to meet the public service world. Typical “how are you?” A half -heart question that makes you feel impossible to answer after a destructive disaster. But this question was never mentioned. Instead, he was greeted with a reality that inspired him to remain strong.

“They gave me the support I need to find a way to reach the next part of my life,” he said. When I was sixteen, I knew what it meant to serve. “

Today, he applies this lesson and uses the philosophy that there is no blanket solution for grief. Some people may need a two -minute conversation, while others may need 20.

“What we’re trying to do is to make sure we’re trying to make some relaxation and some efforts right now, because at the end of the day we still understand that they should go home and no matter what their new norms.” He said.

Ashton understands this and sees Kerville’s potential over the current breakdown.

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“I mean, we just need generosity with each other, and that’s almost this,” he said. “The only thing we need to be a family is the only thing.”

Howard explained this feeling in one word: Shahalom. It brings a specific type of peace that leanes on the more traditional Hebrew route, not only from God and ourselves, but not to be deeply connected with our environment.

“When the shawl is broken, when relationships are broken, when people are no longer attached to them, we suffer during the trauma period,” he said. This common piece, that part of the community, this piece of belief, God allows us to live, to create deeply in connection. “