It is so painful...

Pain is a "pain". It offers only suffering. it is so painful...

Just the other day, the doctor brother of mine told me about a child who does not feel pain. It is a medical condition that is extremely dangerous to the child. This child has his lips almost eaten up by himself and hands and legs bruised and scars all over, some still horribly unhealed. Since he does not feel pain he ends up de-fleshing himself. A horrendous plight this boy must go though.

Pain is one of the greatest defense mechanism of the body. We take care of the body because there is pain. Pain is a gift.

If the pain, as a result of an injury or an ailment is a gift, the pain as a result of a mental condition should also therefor be a gift. It alerts us of the certain injustice done to us, that we need care and attention. Above all it alerts us that we need to connect back to God who gives us the right perspective to deal the pain and over come it.

Saints often thanked God for suffering and asked for more. They saw pain in the light of "the Light" They suffered pain for the sake of fellow beings. They thankful welcomed it for it's sheer redemptive power, sharing in the suffering of the Lamb that was sacrificed before us.

I thank God for pain...