Covering up Pain with Pain
Covering up Pain with Pain. Does this seem illogical to you? How can one cover up pain with pain? It is done every day in many different ways. Many times it is intentional and other times it is not. These past few weeks I have seen it in many different ways.
I am standing in a crowded room in a dentist office. (Background – an amazing dentist in Greensboro offered to care for one of our middle school girls and her dental work that so desperately needed attention.) The dentist begins to show me her x-rays and the two teeth that are causing the most pain. One is completely gone and the other is ½ way gone. When asked which tooth hurt the worst she replied the one that was ½ way gone. I did all I could to not cry right there in the office as the hygienist explained to me the incredible amount of pain this young girl had to been in with the worse tooth, but then when the 2nd tooth began hurting she could not deal with both at the same time so the 2nd drowned out the first. She had learned to live with the pain, she was in more pain then she even realized b/c the pain had slowly built upon itself.
This is the way it is with us at times. It may not be physical all the time but it is there. We are hurt or disappointed by someone and instead of dealing with and working through that pain we cover it up with pain…we may chose to cut off our hearts telling ourselves we will never trust anyone again. Some have intentionally hurt someone else or have been violated themselves, some chose to withdraw, turning to substances, unhealthy relationships and even self inflicted harm, leaving scars that are evidence of the pain that is in his/her heart.
Pain will come in this life, there is no getting around it. Being a Christian does not make you exempt from the pain and the suffering. But it does give you hope…Hope that this is not all that there is in life. Jesus restores the broken hearted. The above story was about a young girl that was suffering pain from decayed teeth. But The message is---that there is hope for every decaying place in your heart and that Jesus can and is willing and waiting for you to allow Him in to minister to those broken places.
Check out http://www.mercyministries.com/ a place of healing for girls and young women age 14-28 years old.
I am standing in a crowded room in a dentist office. (Background – an amazing dentist in Greensboro offered to care for one of our middle school girls and her dental work that so desperately needed attention.) The dentist begins to show me her x-rays and the two teeth that are causing the most pain. One is completely gone and the other is ½ way gone. When asked which tooth hurt the worst she replied the one that was ½ way gone. I did all I could to not cry right there in the office as the hygienist explained to me the incredible amount of pain this young girl had to been in with the worse tooth, but then when the 2nd tooth began hurting she could not deal with both at the same time so the 2nd drowned out the first. She had learned to live with the pain, she was in more pain then she even realized b/c the pain had slowly built upon itself.
This is the way it is with us at times. It may not be physical all the time but it is there. We are hurt or disappointed by someone and instead of dealing with and working through that pain we cover it up with pain…we may chose to cut off our hearts telling ourselves we will never trust anyone again. Some have intentionally hurt someone else or have been violated themselves, some chose to withdraw, turning to substances, unhealthy relationships and even self inflicted harm, leaving scars that are evidence of the pain that is in his/her heart.
Pain will come in this life, there is no getting around it. Being a Christian does not make you exempt from the pain and the suffering. But it does give you hope…Hope that this is not all that there is in life. Jesus restores the broken hearted. The above story was about a young girl that was suffering pain from decayed teeth. But The message is---that there is hope for every decaying place in your heart and that Jesus can and is willing and waiting for you to allow Him in to minister to those broken places.
Check out http://www.mercyministries.com/ a place of healing for girls and young women age 14-28 years old.
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