being a mother of a biological child, i obviously got to experience the wonderful thing called labor. it sucked. it was painful, nauseating, and worrisome. it was full of anticipation, it took forever (at least that's what it seemed like), and it was really tiring. i had to endure all of the pain and suffering and sleeplessness that child birth had to offer me. however, the drugs were pretty darn good.
anyway, before i even went into labor, i endured either the horror stories or blissful experiences everyone and their grandma had experienced through their child birth. but the one thing that really got my attention was when people would say, it will hurt, but the pain you feel is drastically different than the pain you feel from an everyday wound. hmm... what?
the pain from an oven burn or even a broken arm doesn't feel good. it sucks. there is an obvious flesh wound present. something happened and the outcome is not good, if you catch my drift.
birth pains do hurt. there are a ton of different experiences women go through. but it's different. it does suck to some extent, but the outcome is good.
as jesus said, "these are the beginning of birth pains." although he was literally speaking about the end of times, this I believe applies to "healing." we will face crap in our lives, we will get crap unexpectedly thrown in our faces (not literally of course...at least i hope not), we will endure great suffering in some form or another, we will go through tough situations. it will suck. we will need jesus. and he will be there through these things with us. and he will heal us. and it will be good.
1 comments:
good word, Jami. I like that analogy. It seems we can't get away from pain.
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