THE BLESSING OF PAIN

"...He is a man of sorrows acquainted with grief." 

Isaiah 53:3

Someone once told me, "Life is a pain."  You know what? In many ways they are right.  Sadly, however, our culture tells us pain is something to medicate, as in "Excedrin Headache number 23." As a matter of fact, we have a pill for just about every kind of pain there is.  Some take this further by medicating any pain with alcohol, drugs, sex, food (including multiple eating disorders)  gambling, pornography, cutting,  or over spending-shopping til they drop. Because pain is looked at as "bad" the illogical--conscious/unconscious-- conclusion drawn is "I need to need to stop the pain rather than learn from it and become well."  

 

Now, don't get me wrong, I am NOT saying there are never any times to get help with our pain from the medical community. Palliative Care includes mostly "comfort measures" when there is no way to use curative measures.  In many cases these CMs extend the quality and length of life. However, this is not the area of pain about which I am speaking.

 

Sadly, when it comes to emotions, therefore, Many-who are not allowed to feel their emotions -while growing up- stuff the pain, and so it  builds up to a toxic status. It hurts really really bad.  AND, therefore, pain is viewed as somehow "bad"  because, as I said, they are hurting badly. Grief, among other things, is a painful series of emotions that include such things as Shock, Anger, Depression, Bargaining, Sadness... and eventually a place of relative acceptance, until something re-triggers the grief. 

 

This thing called grief is a healer; however, many in our culture don't learn about processing the emotional stuff called grief.  "Stuff" like loss of any kind happens, and I guarantee you grief will attempt to work its way in... that is unless you put up a road block. This hinders Jesus, "a man of sorrow acquainted with grief" from applying the comfort of the Holy Spirit. So we who could be the "blessed are those who mourn" and who would be "comforted" do not experience the comforting help with our grief . Why? Because we run from the healing pain in the ways discussed earlier.

 

In reality wisdom teaches that pain is neither "bad" nor "good."  What makes it either one, is how we process it or respond to the pain. Pain is simply telling us something needs to be addressed; for example,  I survived 3 heart attacks because pain "told me" something was wrong.  I arrived at the place of those 3 heart attacks because I did not process the emotions and the "stuff" causing me the pain.  We pull our hands back quickly from something that is VERY hot and pain protects us by causing our body to automatically react in a protective way. If we, like a leper, cannot feel the pain... well... we lose body parts.

 

So if you are getting what I am saying, I hope, before you let "stuff" keep hurting you, you learn how to live and address pain. Let the pain be a blessing not a curse.  Now we cannot do a whole lot about teaching any of this in a short blog; however, if you have pain which is resulting in you acting in ways that harm you and not help you, send me an email for information and I will provide you what I have that really works for me.  Let me tell you up front that what I use is powerful Christos Centric Spirituality.  Here is my email.  ammac123@gmail.com

 

GO ON OUT AND BE BLESSED 2DAY

ESPECIALLY 2DAY.

 

SoJourner