I watched this movie: The
Fault in our Stars (from a novel by John Green). And there was this scene where Hazel reads from the Peter Van Houten book “An Imperial Affliction” this passage:
"PAIN
demands to be felt.
[Pain -] It is the ultimate superhero: backs down to no one, overcomes
every obstacle. All the nerve blocks and
neuro-chemical disruptors and inflammation antagonists line up, and PAIN barrels through them all, refusing to go unheard, bringing justice where
otherwise there would only be peace. It
rises up, sears through me once more, and reminds myself that no single moment
is unbearable, [and] that all will be borne."
It is true: Pain has to be borne. Pain has to be suffered. That is what our mortal lives is all about. The One Up There never promised to remove the pain. But then He sent that SomeOne Near Him down here to see us through it... to walk with us through the pain.