November 17, 2002
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I got this in my email today and it couldn't have come at a better time because I really needed it. I thought I would share it here and hopefully it will help some of you too.
Today's thought is:
Sometimes things have to get worse before they get better.
- Joe B.
Oh, how we hate pain! Doesn't everyone? And it isn't true that pain is
ennobling or in some other mysterious way "good for you." The only
people who say that are those who have gotten by, so far, without much
pain. But sometimes things have to get worse - more painful - before
they get better.
We feel painful conflict when we start to recover After all, we have
lived in certain systems for many years. And these systems are self-
perpetuating-they always seek stability. Sparks fly when we move in
on our systems and start to change the rules. There is always
confrontation when we act instead of react. And confrontation means
challenge. In the midst of conflict and confusion, the pain of forging on
can be almost unbearable. It would be so easy to throw in the towel and
surrender. But sometimes there's just no way out but through. The
rewards of discovering that path are great and will stay with us for a
lifetime.
Today, I pray for courage to persist. If there has to be pain, let me
accept it now, get on with it, and through with it.
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Today's meditation comes from the book
Days of Healing, Days of Joy by Earnie Larsen and Carol Larsen Hegarty copyright 1987
available through our online bookstore at:
http://www.hazeldenbookplace.org/store/product.asp?sku=5024
Comments (4)
Well this is my response to the last couple blogs actually. I know exactly how you feel about the depression. It seems like it's going to lift for good and then BOOM it sucks you right back in.
And the thing about things are gonna get worse before they get better yeah sad but tru.
true, but pain has a value that i'm going to save for my blog, to write about it. I have volumes of stuff to say about it---and the info is powerul as all get-out!!!
Blessings. ~s.
I agree with the first commenter Sometimes things have to get worse before they get better.
- Joe B.
In our spiritual senses,we know that after the storm there is a rainbow and every time after he will work the evil to good.our misery or crisis make us more sensitive and enable us to help others,with our understanding.
Tommorow is a new day.Peace=)Mao
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