Who Do You Blame? ~ Yourself and Your Maladies

Greetings Dear Reader, 

I do not talk about it often.  I have a physical malady that causes me to be in pain all of the time.  Sometimes it is worse than others.  It is not debilitating but its voice is always in my mind.  This, however, is not my point. 

It does serve to lay a foundation for your reference to my pondering.  Pain is distracting and taxing.  It asks for attention and saps our energy all at once.  It takes away stamina and can muddle the mind.  All of this is true but it is also still subject to our choices. 

What we do is allow our maladies and discomforts to become our possessions or even our friends; our life companions.  We transform our identity into something shrouded in our malady.  “I cannot come to the party, my shoulder is acting up,” becomes the kind of thing we say.  We allow our pain to shrink our world.  We blame it for our inaction and isolation. 

The pain we carry does not dismiss us from serving the Kingdom.  Rather, we are to use it to serve.  We are to seek a way to use pain and suffering to find joy in the Father.  I think we have lost this on a grand scale.  The pain we carry is yet another opportunity to cling to the Father. 

We were never promised that things would be easy or painless.  We are promised joy in the journey if we are willing to have it.  If we look at the long line of those who chose faith in their suffering, we see them understanding peace in the pain.  The journey home will be difficult at times but we cannot blame our pain or use it as an excuse not to be all the Father has for us. 

Blaming my failure to follow Christ on my pain would be folly, Dear Reader.  After all, he clearly told us to take up our cross and follow him.  To think this to be painless is self-deception.  When we see someone carrying a cross, we should immediately think of pain and suffering.  We all have a cross to carry and we cannot blame the pain of it for inaction.  Let us then walk together in our pain and perhaps better care for each other.  We can find our way home and bring others with us. 

Wishing you joy in the journey, 

Aramis Thorn
Mat 13:52 So Jesus said to them, "That is why every writer who has become a disciple of Christ’s rule of the universe is like a homeowner. He liberally hands out new and old things from his great treasure store.”
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Every human story is part of the great story that leads to the Father getting everything back to Good. 

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When your affliction becomes your identity, there is a problem beyond the affliction.