I burnt my finger on Tuesday. I was heating up some pasta and the steam got me…
And so I rushed to a cold water tap and did the normal thing of sticking my finger in there but I needed to go finish the pasta, get the children fed, do some other important thing…
There was no time to stay under the tap until the pain subsided and the finger started to heal…
So, I figured it would be fine…
A little dip in the cold water and hey, I gotta get on.
Today, I looked at my finger and noticed a weird set of blisters on it and it surpried me as I had even forgotten about burning my finger…
But my body had not.
It was going about its business, regardless of whether I wanted to gloss over it or not…
Thankfully, it is just a burn.
The blisters will disappear soon enough and that will be that.
However, there are some hurts that go deeper than just a teeny-tiny steam burn on a finger…
There are hurts that arise as people do hurtful things…
Parents let you down…
Children let you down…
People die who are close to you…
People across the planet kill other people for no other reason than some silly religious difference…
Bosses treat you like dirt…
Pastor does some other unforgiveable thing…
And for the most part, you may try to gloss over it…
To tell yourself that this is not happening to you and you just need to keep going……
And anyway, you are fine…
And yep, you may create a seemingly successful life
Maybe, hit a few upper limits and be unable to bring a vision to life…
But you choose to pretend that you are okay with them…
And then one day, you realise you are not happy with them…
You realise that you feel dead inside…
Or worse, you get sick or something…
And you wonder what you did to deserve this…
You feel like you are being punished…
And yuo want it all to go away…
You keep trying to resolve it all, to make the feeling go away, to find other superficial reliefs…
It may work for a season but like my burn, at some point, you will have to let it heal…
At some point, you may simply need to lean into the pain rather than keep trying to avoid it…
Because then you can learn the lesson and heal the hurt and MOVE ON to the next level for you…
Fight for, deliberately design the life you are born to live
Because you want to
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