writers and pain

i had 10 fifteen minute appointments today. i think that breaks a personal record for me. It was good but exhausting. My brain was buzzing by the time i made it through the supper line. But overall it was a good day and now I'm in the midst of writing. I'd like to turn in another portion of a youth study guide on kindness tonight. I'm about 3/4 of the way through the session and the rest should be downhill.

one aha moment today: an overwhelming amount of writers feel compelled to write because of pain. this is a thread i've never really thought about before but i counted 7 writers who wanted to share about their struggle with one sort of pain or another. a battle with cancer, a rebel child, a family addiction, a wounded spirit...

something in the human spirit wishes to receive fellowship in the midst of suffering. I guess that's why I feel so compelled to write about the stations of the cross- the logistical path of suffering is so universal and powerful to believers. I know that much of it is not acknowledged by my denomination but there is such power in them that we cannot deny them.

Comments

[john]

pain is something that we cannot deny as real. pain also slows down timeframes so that we experience it for longer periods of data input.

compared to joy and pleasure where timeframes are speeding past. sometimes too fast to experience or verify as real to us.

coupled with how desensitized and sterilized everything is now. today a sport must me eXtreme to be a sport. so must our human experience.

how trite to write about the breath of your son...