... of the day all the staff of the ministry I had been part of for 14 years were laid off. (I wrote about it here.) Definitely a dark time. Not that the lights are shining so brightly now, but there's been a fair amount of healing.
I recently heard that some time after the demise of our ministry, one of my former co-workers, after getting together for dinner with several others, speculated, 'Is there a certain amount of time that has to be spent talking about this stuff, after something like this happens? What if we are only a quarter of the way through?"
Could be.
It still hurts. Like a divorce or something.
ReplyDeleteYup. I have noticed that the majority of words and images people use to describe that dark time start are brought to us by the letter 'D.'
ReplyDeleteDivorce
Disintegration
Disaster
Demise
Dissolution
Debacle...
I can also think of a few 'C' words that might fit:
ReplyDeleteCatastrophe
Cataclysm
Chaos
Crash
Conundrum: a confusing and difficult problem or question
Confusion: a disorderly jumble; a situation of panic; a breakdown of order
Childishness
Craze: an enthusiasm for a particular activity or object that typically appears suddenly and achieves widespread but short-lived popularity
Crisis...