Pain

Sometimes the hurt is so great you feel as if something doesn’t help, the pain will sweep over you in an overwhelming, life-ending agony. When it is a physical pain you are confident that if you can just tell the physician how and where it hurts he will be able to empathize sufficiently to render the pain harmless and end it.

Emotional pain is a different story. When you can’t (or won’t) share the source of the pain, or explain why a state of lethargy and apathy plague your days, people are quick to assume you are angry, or indifferent toward them, or just being a pain in the neck.

The reality of life is that “things happen.” In any group of folks (a Church, for example) there are multitudes of things going on in the life of indivduals, some physical, some emotional, and, as a matter of fact, some folks are just a “pain.”

Is there a “spiritual solution?” Yes. Cut everyone some slack! That may sound a little “worldly,” but it really isn’t. If someone you meet seems a little “off” their game, just mention that you llove them, and are available if they have a need you can meet. It may help their pain, and it will certainly help lower the conflict quotient. That’s a good thing!