Pain can do three very important things in our lives:
it can prepare us for something else.
It can prepare us to help someone else.
And it can grant us a new perspective.
One thing that has always helped me through deep difficulty:
is knowing that my pain will never be wasted down here on earth:
because God can use it,
if I let Him.
If I surrender it.
This doesn’t mean my pain goes away:
it simply means that I become open to the idea:
of using my pain:
for something good.
It took me all the effort in the world to get out of bed most days back then and still does sometimes:
as I grapple with other difficulties.
But knowing in my heart that I can lift up another hurting heart like mine:
brings me healing.
Helping others through my writing:
brings me healing.
And let me tell you:
it’s not easy to be raw and real and honest:
in a world that has us so used to covering everything up,
shoving everything down and keeping on going.
Pain can do three very important things in our lives:
it can prepare us for something else.
It can prepare us to help someone else.
And it can grant us a new perspective.
And in my case, a great deal of pain in my own life:
has given me a Heavenly perspective.
To the point that I try not to get too worked up about things down here.
Because life on earth is the cover page:
while Eternity, pain free, is the rest of the story.
“All people are like grass, and all their glory is like the flowers of the field; the grass withers and the flowers fall, but the word of the Lord endures forever.” -1 Peter 1:24-25