Our Sorrow

The Good News Today Is...A goal that doesn’t present itself with challenges may not be worth achieving. This is the quote under today's living well widget at the bottom of my blog. (If you read this on a different day than the 25th, the widget will have changed the quote.) Anyway....it is appropriate for my experience at work yesterday. We were forced to lay off about one third of our work force. In a small business that is like loosing 10 family members in a plane crash. However, if the goal is to keep the business going and make it healthy again so we can call them back to work, we had to do it. Talk about a challenge. This is one of those times when you can search for "peace like a river" and you end up floating down the river, forgetting how to swim and thinking you're going to drown. We are now in a time of mourning the loss of our co-workers jobs. It is no comfort for the rest of us that we still have employment. There will be healing...but for today there is sorrow. "My soul is weary with sorry; strengthen me according to your word." Psalm 119:28