Hits

 

Fort Sumter is best known for being the location of the beginning shot of the civil war.  

But in July of 1863 when the Union was attempting to regain the fort, they bombarded the edifice with short range fire, crumbling the walls. 

Ironically, the assaults indirectly strengthened the fort.  Confederate soldiers used the crumbled materials, cotton bales and bags of sand to strengthen and fortify the walls to an impressive thickness that artillery could no longer cut through.

Eventually the union troops were victorious and the confederates, rather than surrender, abandoned Fort Sumter.  But the lesson remains.

Our life "hits" can also become our strength as we use the damaged pieces to rebuild and fortify our own lives.  

We can truly have our weaknesses, become our strengths.

And what if what we thought were our weaknesses or downfall actually become the most important part of our new foundations? 

I can then turn and tell Satan, "You can't get me down.  You see these crumbles?   I'll be rebuilding with a strength you can't even imagine.  Because I have the Master Architect on my side.  So go ahead and try, but every hit, though painful in the moment, only gives me power to become stronger for the woes of tomorrow. "