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Pain

I finally got a chance to speak with pain; I had a lot of questions for pain to answer hopefully. The first question was obvious –
Who asked you to come here? No answer
Why do you afflict my life? Still no answer
Then I realized I was asking the wrong questions, so I shouted out: Who do you think you are? Pain turned around and finally answered, ‘O just a friend.’
Well you’re no friend of mine! At this, pain started laughing hysterically then said, ‘I remind you of your frailty, your capabilities and your nature, without me you would start thinking that you’re perfect; or even God Himself!
I thought about what pain said, then he rose up and asked me…’Can I go now? I have work to do’ So I asked pain, where are you going? He replied, not very far, I’m still working in this house.
I begged pain to leave…he said, “I can leave but there’s a problem.” What’s that? He answered, if I leave, you would have no motivation to seek God.
With that, pain turned and walked away – he headed into my bedroom, then my living room, kitchen, garage, bathrooms, front and back yard; then he took off to the church.

Pain is everywhere; he makes no reservations, he simply shows up expectantly, leaving us with a choice to learn, to run, to yearn, or lash out. No apologies, no regrets – pain.

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