Friday, January 07, 2022

Engagement With Pain

There is nothing quite like experiencing the pain of another person.

Half (?) the problem in our engagement with pain seems to be the embedded fear that it will never stop.

While difficult to embrace Teresa of Avila’s observation about it, it is not hard to notice that it also seems true.


I posted the above after a long, pain-filled night with Conner (see prior post).

As of late in the day today, though, he has walked quite a bit and is, as he says, ‘feeling human’ again…which underscores the observations above.