Internal pain is worse than the pain of external wounds.
A broken arm will heal, a sprained ankle will heal, and a cut or gash of the skin will heal.
Medication or pain killers help us to recover without physical pain, which enable us to rest and sleep during the process of healing.
But what about the internal pain of a broken heart, a broken spirit, a lost love, a lost dream, and lost hope?
There is no external medication that will heal internal pain, and therefore there is no rest or sleep during the healing process.
To people suffering with internal pain, hope and happiness are but fleeting moments of flickering light, and survival becomes the reality of moment by moment. In times such as these, we can only hope that things will change, that things will improve, leaving us to ask: will we ever be happy again?
When hope is lost, losing everything is nothing lost. With nothing to live for and nothing to gain, what am I doing here?
It is easy to try to encourage people with broken hearts, broken spirits, lost loves, lost dreams, and lost hope, but do I truly understand the pain of people in pain if I have never experienced internal pain and suffering? It is easy to say God understands, turn to Jesus, go see the priest, forgive and forget, I know a good doctor, or even I know how you feel.
Do you, however? Do you really know how I feel? Is my pain the same as your pain, and my suffering the same as your suffering? Is my broken heart the same as your broken heart?
On the other hand, perhaps you have never had a broken heart, a wounded spirit, a shattered dream, or a lost love. Perhaps you have never lost a night's sleep, or the dread of another waking day.
We try to fix internal pain with words of medication, the medication of nods and touching, and the medication of words of understanding.
If winning does not excite you, and if losing does not bother you, what are you doing in the game?
If you have never experienced internal pain, your words of wisdom have no roots and no salt.
Without the experience of internal pain and suffering, we will never understand others in their times of pain and suffering.
Even when people arise out of the pit of pain and suffering, recovery can take days, weeks, months, years, and also decades. Getting there was not easy, and getting out will not be easy. There is no quick fix that can mend broken hearts, broken spirits, the loss of love, and the loss of hope.
Without hope, what do we hope for? Without a dream, what do we dream for? Without love, what do we live for?
To whom do you turn in the time of trouble?
Whom do you trust to understand your time of pain and suffering?
When your family and friends have turned their backs on you, what do you do?
When the people you know have no interest in you, your goals, dreams, and aspirations, what do you do?
When your windows of love, hope, dreams, joy, peace, and comfort are broken in a thousand pieces, who is there to help you in all of your pain and suffering?
It is good to know that we have God, but often it is good to know that we simply have a few people who honestly care about us.
A broken arm will heal, a sprained ankle will heal, and a cut or gash of the skin will heal.
Medication or pain killers help us to recover without physical pain, which enable us to rest and sleep during the process of healing.
But what about the internal pain of a broken heart, a broken spirit, a lost love, a lost dream, and lost hope?
There is no external medication that will heal internal pain, and therefore there is no rest or sleep during the healing process.
To people suffering with internal pain, hope and happiness are but fleeting moments of flickering light, and survival becomes the reality of moment by moment. In times such as these, we can only hope that things will change, that things will improve, leaving us to ask: will we ever be happy again?
When hope is lost, losing everything is nothing lost. With nothing to live for and nothing to gain, what am I doing here?
It is easy to try to encourage people with broken hearts, broken spirits, lost loves, lost dreams, and lost hope, but do I truly understand the pain of people in pain if I have never experienced internal pain and suffering? It is easy to say God understands, turn to Jesus, go see the priest, forgive and forget, I know a good doctor, or even I know how you feel.
Do you, however? Do you really know how I feel? Is my pain the same as your pain, and my suffering the same as your suffering? Is my broken heart the same as your broken heart?
On the other hand, perhaps you have never had a broken heart, a wounded spirit, a shattered dream, or a lost love. Perhaps you have never lost a night's sleep, or the dread of another waking day.
We try to fix internal pain with words of medication, the medication of nods and touching, and the medication of words of understanding.
If winning does not excite you, and if losing does not bother you, what are you doing in the game?
If you have never experienced internal pain, your words of wisdom have no roots and no salt.
Without the experience of internal pain and suffering, we will never understand others in their times of pain and suffering.
Even when people arise out of the pit of pain and suffering, recovery can take days, weeks, months, years, and also decades. Getting there was not easy, and getting out will not be easy. There is no quick fix that can mend broken hearts, broken spirits, the loss of love, and the loss of hope.
Without hope, what do we hope for? Without a dream, what do we dream for? Without love, what do we live for?
To whom do you turn in the time of trouble?
Whom do you trust to understand your time of pain and suffering?
When your family and friends have turned their backs on you, what do you do?
When the people you know have no interest in you, your goals, dreams, and aspirations, what do you do?
When your windows of love, hope, dreams, joy, peace, and comfort are broken in a thousand pieces, who is there to help you in all of your pain and suffering?
It is good to know that we have God, but often it is good to know that we simply have a few people who honestly care about us.
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