Pain Management
Each of us is managing horrific loss, pain and shock. The size and shape varies from one to another. For some the losses are very personal. For others, it is the shock of seeing the unimaginable pain relentlessly inflicted on ordinary innocent humans every day in so many ways.
Whatever the shape of our pain, we need to do something with that pain – to hide the pain, to make meaning of the pain, to minimize or deny the pain, to assign blame for the pain, or to transform the pain into something else.
Managing our distress is not the only thing we do.
We also express hope, vitality, love, beauty,
compassion, courage, generosity, and faith.
But the management of that which is awful is inherently woven into the subtle fabric of each of our inner lives.
And this is one more reason why compassion
and curiosity are always useful.
Not as a replacement for boundaries, truth,
and committed action, but as adjuncts to these things.
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