Let your mind start a journey thru a strange new world. Leave all thoughts of the world you knew before. Let your soul take you where you long to be...Close your eyes let your spirit start to soar, and you'll live as you've never lived before. -- Eric Fromm
May 6, 2005
Embrace the Pain
Pain is the common denominator of the 21st century. This pain is a result of loss, abuse, abandonment, rejection, and even self-inflicted wounds. What do we do with this pain? How do you get from a painful past to a peaceful present? Henri Nouwen writes about embracing the pain. He writes: "Here a completely new way of living is revealed. It is the way in which pain can be embraced, not out of a desire to suffer, but in the knowledge that something new will be born in the pain. Jesus calls our pains "labor pains." He says: "A women in childbirth suffers because her time has come; but when she has given birth to the child, she forgets the suffering in her joy that a human being has been born into the world."
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- David Michael
- Katy, Texas, United States
- Being a husband and a father is the greatest blessing in my life. I am also a Special Educator to students with an autism spectrum disorder.
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