“Life’s challenges are not supposed to paralyze you, they’re supposed to help you discover who you are.” ~Bernice Johnson Reagon
I have been blessed with the time, energy, family and friends who can gently and lovingly support me on a path to wholeness. And I am grateful for the pain, because it calls me home. It reminds me that I have work to finish. Actually pain is a love song from my soul. It’s not punishment, but rather a gift to show me the way back to my life.
I embrace pain, making it burn as fuel for my journey, learning to live with it though it can be crippling at times. I prefer walking bravely through pain’s cleansing fire, although it does scare me at times burning so brightly that I walk in knowing it will hurt me a lot. But I know I will come out on the other side stronger and more complete. There is a beauty in pain that even happiness cannot touch, because I risked letting myself feel it. Pain is what brings me back to myself .
Pain is a part of my experience, not something I run away from, to escape. Pain will find me somehow, and to go through its cleansing fire is one of the truest things that can happen to value life. There is gift in pain, because it makes me find a meaning for life.Ultimately the pain is a fact of endurance of a truth of my being.....wading through life with a body of complicated pains.
