Pain is Intense at times

INTENSITY

Mornings are magnificent

as are words

as is color

as is challenge

along with pain at times

Moving through pain

whether physical, emotional, spiritual or mental

can be intense as well. It has its own time clock,

its own season and reasons.

Remember that ole' saying

"What doesn't kill ya will make you stronger"

Boy I used to hate that saying!

These days I just rather grin when I hear it

letting the teller of it enjoy having said it

no matter the circumstance or situation

it always seems to make the person on the saying

side feel better having said it.

I prefer hearing what Mother Teresa had to say

in those intense times

when heard to say

"I know God will not give me anything I can't handle. I just wish that He didn't trust me so much."

 ~Mother Teresa~

Intense times are experienced by many people during life, it seems some just experience more than their fair share.

AND

yes, really rotten things happen to really great people.

It just so happens that most of those things we never really can understand or fully process,

perhaps it is just not ours to understand fully

or reckon with I reckon.

Pain is pain

whether physical, emotional, mental or spiritual.

There are ways

that we can minister or attend to others during those

times

if they are open to receive us.

That is the key

are we open during those times

those intense times

when pain is at its highest.

It may be at those very difficult times

that folks want to retreat and to be left alone

to suffer in silence and withdraw from the very ones

they count on for solace

and sometimes

we have to honor that

at least for a little while.

When they emerge from the initial phases of pain, or the cycles of that pain;

they will need to hydrate well

to eat and nourish their bodies

and

then perhaps they are ready for us to reach out

and

hold them

to let them know

we are standing at the ready,

and

to remind them we've been there all along.

Waiting like silent beacons in the dark

shining a light for them to find their way

and

they may need reminders

we never left their view or their side.

It is hard, so very hard

to bear silent witness to the pain of another

particularly one that is loved.

BUT

sometimes we must be silent

we must witness from a place of

honor in silence

knowing that there are no words

to do justice to the pain

no words needed to let another know

of our understanding or our

love.

There will come a time though

for us

to

Stand UP

and to be proactive

on behalf of the one we love

and

to take the helm

when they are not able to

secondary to their pain.

We will then be able to demonstrate by action

that we can do whatever it takes

to attend to the tasks at hand

while still being present

fully present for them.

Pain is intense

it sometimes repeats itself again and again

BUT

HOPE is ever present

in the action

love

and

movement of those who love freely

and

care deeply.

The fire is burning brightly and its embers are hot.

The bowl is filled and lit; the sage is filling the air

with healing thoughts for all on the winds today.

STOMP

and know that you are.

I wish you enough

to be all that you need to be

for you

so

that you can be all that you are for those that you love.

Walk In Beauty

DRSES

author of

Healing Heartaches, Stories of Loss and Life

http://www.drsherryeshowalter.com/