Pain is a Pain
The old adage “Pain is inevitable” is often repeated, and as we look around us and listen to our own lives, there is certainly strong evidence to support this claim. A colleague is recovering from brain surgery, the mother of a student had spinal cord surgery day before yesterday, my wife is recovering from a broken toe, and our son from a sprained ankle.
Yet physical pain only tells a part of the pain story – a friend is grieving the estranged relationship between her and her young adult daughter, another is mourning the dream job that he didn’t get, another is in shock over the news that her husband may have only a short time to live, a student is struggling with ongoing wounds of sexual abuse, while another friend wonders if he will ever find ministry a position again after the turmoil that plagued his last post.
The old adage “Pain is inevitable” is often repeated, and as we look around us and listen to our own lives, there is certainly strong evidence to support this claim. A colleague is recovering from brain surgery, the mother of a student had spinal cord surgery day before yesterday, my wife is recovering from a broken toe, and our son from a sprained ankle.
Yet physical pain only tells a part of the pain story – a friend is grieving the estranged relationship between her and her young adult daughter, another is mourning the dream job that he didn’t get, another is in shock over the news that her husband may have only a short time to live, a student is struggling with ongoing wounds of sexual abuse, while another friend wonders if he will ever find ministry a position again after the turmoil that plagued his last post.
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