![]() I then find that my places of pain are places to commune with Christ. ![]() When I’m not so busy trying to earn love and annihilate anxiety, I get to encounter Jesus: God-made-flesh, the God who chose to suffer. Suffering dissolves the tie between striving and acceptance in my faith, leaving the essential truth that I am already loved by God. Suffering continuously crucifies the god I thought I was worshipping so I can know the God who has already drawn near to me. How has your suffering impacted your faith as a Christian? Paying attention to my whole story and naming the pain throughout it has created larger space to acknowledge the goodness and grace in my present circumstances.and the healing that is coming. Physical pain has helped me attend to the emotional and spiritual pain laced throughout my life. ![]() Physical suffering has forced me to reckon with the suffering throughout my life story. In some seasons I have been unable to work or leave my home, but right now I am pretty functional. In a decade of living with AS, I haven’t had a day without pain. While I started receiving treatment fairly quickly, my diagnosis wasn’t certain for four years. In a matter of days I went from being active and health to barely being able to walk. Nearly 11 years ago, as a junior in college, I suddenly became ill with what was later diagnosed as Ankylosing Spondylitis (AS). Suffering has been a prominent part of my life for over a decade. Please tell us about your journey with suffering? ![]()
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