Friday, September 05, 2014

Pain demands to be felt

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.