When it comes to pain, I’m a wimp.
I’m three weeks removed from an older mans serious fall, four detailing blogs and still counting. Two weeks off oxy and 12 hours from Tylenol and all I can do is feel awakened pain around my face, my eyes stinging as the interior multiple fractures heal, my body captured by continuous sleep.
Honestly the real pain of this season is the family’s, including mine, who have lost to death family members well before their time. To a person theirs is the heroic pain.
Yet, in Christ all our struggles in this life become part of a larger human and Divine encounter in the one appointed by God to take “up our pain and“ bear “our suffering, yet we considered him punished by God, stricken by him, and afflicted. But he was pierced for our transgressions, he was crushed for our iniquities; the punishment that brought us peace was on him, and by his wounds we are healed” (Isaiah 53:4-5 NIV).
In Christ each and all of our stories become healing, restorative spaces for us, if only we will allow it to be so and reservoirs of hope for other traveling through the loneliness that is pain.
Such is this Devotional message from “The Advent of God through Mary” reflecting on the “Whirlwinds” surround g Mary’s Palestinian life under Roman rule so long ago.
Blessings! Terry :)
Advent LIBA1-2 “From the Whirlwinds—Jesus Emergent” https://youtu.be/ZjaTmIquT9U
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