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What do you make of this?

What happens when life keeps punching you in the gut, leaving you frustrated…

sad…

confused?

I’ve said before that we have to be “interpreters of pain” for others. But after a summer from hell, I don’t want anyone to interpret my pain.

Is there always a reason behind everything?

Or does the world just suck sometimes?

Maybe all we can do is just take the struggle. Enter the Trial. Embrace the Pain. Are all struggles trying to teach us something…or just to teach us that sometimes you struggle?

Bad things happen. This is Life.

Inhabit the Suffering. Just take it. You’re not the first one to struggle and feel pain, and you certainly won’t be the last. Why should you get a free pass from pain? Why do you think that once you’ve identified it as suffering and a trial, you get out of it?

Engage the Circumstance. You’re here. Sit tight and take it all in. You could be here a while.

Interpret the Pain. But what does it mean?

There we go again. We need to understand pain. We do, in fact, need to be interpreters of Pain and suffering, brokenness and despair.

But it’s very short-sighted and self-focused for me to try and glean a personally applicable life lesson out of every trial, or series of trials, or 800 page book length worth of trials.

On the other hand, we don’t necessarily need to understand it. That’s the beautiful paradox that exists here.

Pain and brokenness are about as old as the world itself, and they’re not always black and white. Things spill, people hurt, and loss occurs.

We can’t always explain it; yet, we can explain it.

We explain it by garnering that the world we live in is really, really broken. Really crappy things happen every day.

The upside of brokenness is that you get to see where you are really blessed. If you don’t believe in a health & wealth Gospel, and I don’t, then perhaps you realize that God is loving you regardless of your earthly circumstances.

Love is much more eternal than pain.