The Drill is on!

11-20–19 Wednesday

 

800 Faith based Pre-marital and Marriage coaching? Do you need it? 

 

I got some exciting news… looks like we have just about nailed the location for our next TDA conference in March of 2020… I should know more in just a few days and i will keep you posted. 

 

 

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no pain no gain

 

 

Pain

Clyde Reid says in his book, Celebrate the temporary: "One of the most common obstacles to celebrating life fully is our avoidance of pain We do everything to escape pain. Our culture reinforces our avoidance of pain by assuring us that we can live a painless life Advertisements constantly encourage us to believe that life can be pain-free But to live without pain is a myth To live without pain is to live half a life, without fullness of life. This is an unmistakable, clear, unalterable fact. Many of us do not realize that pain and joy run together When we cut ourselves off from pain, we have unwittingly cut ourselves off from joy as well."

Clyde Reid, Celebrating the temporary. San Francisco, CA, Harper 1974, p.44-45

 

Pain

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Pain is inevitable. Suffering is optional.

 

There are many things in life that could cause you a lot of pain, but doing nothing will always create the most pain.  Garth

Doing nothing about your pain will cause suffering not one for you but those around you.

 

Do you know someone who is a chronic whiner about some pain in their life?

Weight? Job? Money? 

They do nothing and they suffer more every day. 

 

Elijah is in pain. he is burned out, he is on the run, he is lonely and he is semi delusional. And he runs from his pain…

So what does he do?

He gets away with God, 

he eats, he sleeps and he listens to the voice of God and realizes he is not the only one going through tough times.

 

He quits hiding from it. He acts on what God is telling him to do. 

 

Look when you are in physical pain what do you do?

You stop from the action that is causing it,

you walk away from the pain

you go to people who are safe

you allow yourself to heal

You learn from it…. 

so….

 

 

Henri Nouwen wrote that “our culture has become most sophisticated in the

avoidance of pain, not only our physical pain but our emotional and mental

pain as well. 

 

So if you are in a pain other than physical… you do the same things. 

You stop from the action that is causing it,

you walk away from the pain

you go to people who are safe

you allow yourself to heal

You learn from it…. 

 

 

"It doesn't really matter whether you grip the arms of the dentist's
chair or let your hands lie in your lap. The drill drills on."
- C. S. Lewis:  A Grief Observed

 

it’s what you are going to do about it.