Pain's Point

It keeps ribbing at you right under the ribs...makes you feel sore and like you can't breath. The point is sharper than you'd hope and it's effects longer than you liked to think. But maybe that is the point. It is suppose to change you. Change the way you feel, the way you look, the way you understand. Is your heart not more full of true empathy for others after you've been through your own real pain? Don't you learn more what true love and true friends and true trust are after pain? Don't you believe just a little bit more that Satan can't do anything that will completely shake your faith if that pain didn't? Isn't it good to know that even though we love feeling like our faith is true, we can always choose to believe it is true even when it doesn't feel that way? Although I don't like pain's point, it has inevitably done many good things to me.