Healing is a thing that is either a pipedream or a laugh for many. There is much more to be gained in drinking or drugging the pain away. Except the pain won’t go away by denying it.
The truth is buried beneath that seemingly impenetrable veneer of pain that lingers over it.
The truth will set us free if only we could get to it. But the pain seems the more immediate pressure point, and the pain requires an anaesthetic. Little wonder there are moments of drunken confession, where the truth not only leaks out, it comes out in a flurry of tears of raging actions.
The journey of reaching the truth each of us embodies as central to who we are is always past the pain that wants to thwart our descent.
Pain causes us to continue to go around it, under it, over it, but never through it. To get to the truth that lingers tantalisingly below the pain is to bear it. To bear its truth.
When we face that pain, in honouring the truth of our pain, we find THAT there, right there, is the golden key into Truth’s door itself.
I’m not talking living purgatory. I’m not thinking this process of visiting pain is something that is arduous or hellish, on the contrary it’s something that always seems bigger and harder and more impossible than it ends up being. Perhaps we go there with a loyal listening friend, or with a mentor, a pastor or counsellor... if you have trauma to deal with—and you’d not be alone—go to someone who is trained and skilled in the area. Go to someone appropriate for YOUR needs. And to have a team of people in our healing is good.
Truth is always below the pain, but as soon as we meet the pain, we do so in truth and we find that when truth and pain merge, the truth begins to free us of the power in the pain.
Truth is nothing to be afraid of because facing the truth always takes courage and our confidence increases when we’ve been courageous.
Truth is buried only so far as the pain hides it, yet as the pain is faced, the truth is seen and encountered, and it frees us from those bonds of pain.
Life invites us ever on the journey of healing so that our pain won’t block us from the vital truth that frees us to finally BE who we are. That truth we all need to face is more beautiful than any of us can contemplate—it’s positive, safe, hope-filled, full of grace.
But the pain sullies the truth and makes our process of getting to the truth harder than it needs to be. Yet, in simply facing that pain in whatever way seems safe IS facing the truth, and truth’s door begins to open.
In being freer of pain, we have less need and maybe no need of all of anaesthetic; we go on in facing truth, and there’s no truth that conquers us anymore with pain.
Whatever it is, I hope this helps.
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