Resilience

VERMEIL BACK BY POPULAR DEMAND! Pre-Orders for vermeil will be ready to ship by August 27! We are afflicted in every way, but not crushed; perplexed, but not despair; we are persecuted, but not abandoned; we are struck down, but not destroyed. Therefore, we do not give up. Even though our outer person is being destroyed, our inner person is being renewed day by day. For our momentary light affliction is producing for us an absolutely incomparable, eternal weight of glory.  2 Corinthians 4:8–9 & 16–17, CSB.  “Resilience isn’t an unyielding, willpower that pushes through any obstacle or withstand any force. Resilience allows us to be flexible and adaptable. We bend, but aren’t broken; we are wounded, but learn how to heal. Through Christ, we overcome and are raised to new life. This is resilience.” – Rebekah Lyons, Building a Resilient Life Historical literature points to the wisdom of the reed, (Aesop's fable of 'The Oak and The Reed') in that the reed that bends with the wind is th