-verb
to confuse or disconcert; upset; frustrate
related words: bemuse, bewilder, throw, befuddle
Everyday for the last 1 1/2 months I have used this word...somehow, the word sounds just how I have felt. "Everything is so discombabulated!", I would say shaking my head and stepping over another pile wondering where something was.
I was sitting in a van the other day confessing my "woe is me"s (mostly compiled of trying to move in, unpack, clean, get over jetlag, find a place to buy groceries, figure out which direction was which, ride trains...I think you get the picture). My dear missionary friends listened knowingly and we laughed about how this word - discombobulate - expressed our transitions so perfectly. We had all experienced it. Mutiple moves overseas. The exhaustion. The mess. The dread of knowing someday we would have to do it all over again.
We laughed and shared our stressful moving experiences that we have weathered through and God encouraged me with their kind words, "I know it's hard, you'll make it though...just give yourself time."
