Recently, Ive been thinking a lot about pain and worry. Ive watched people become paralyzed with fear and worry over pain that they can see coming. They watch as this pain rolls in like a wave on the horizon. It feeds on their fear. It swells on their worry. That wave is inevitable. It is going to come ashore. And there they stand frozen, struggling to get away. Wanting to step back to shallower water. But the riptide of uncontrollable circumstance pulls them out deeper. Now they are waist deep in a see of fear and worry, three inches from a mountainous wave of pain. And they have a choice. They can stand there wide eyed and flat footed and let that wave crush them. Push them under and spin them around until they dont know which way is up. Or they can set their feet, close their eyes, lean forward into that wave and meet it head on. Maybe it still knocks them down. But at least they have accepted its strike. They are ready for the blow and can more easily find their feet and stand up. OR just maybe something else will happen. Maybe that wave that was just now three inches from their face and bearing down on them washes over them. They still feel it pressure, its cold swurling currents. But, quickly it passes, they open their eyes and instead of seeing nothing but that wall of pain and fear, now they see for miles. They see the sun in the sky, the dolphins frolicking in the water around them. If they look back they still see the wave there, but now it is moving away and getting smaller. But they dont need to look back. Theyve seen that before. Theres more to see looking ahead. In life pain will come. You decide how you meet it. It may knock you down. It may wrench your soul in half. But you must accept it. Allow it to be but a temporary guest in your life, then when its time for it to go, you simply say, Get to steppin.
Posted on: Fri, 08 Nov 2013 14:26:29 +0000
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