January, 2025
I imagine that there will be much suffering in the next few years, both here in the US and in the world. I was reading a blog the other day, and the author, Rev Deshna Shine, said
“There is no right or wrong way to deal with suffering, just effective and ineffective. There is often something positive that comes out of suffering, especially when we approach our suffering in an effective way. By effective, I mean, we feel it fully, we take time to process it and we maintain a sense of temporality.
Everything is complex and sometimes things that seem “bad” or hard, challenging, frightening, un-grounding, unknown, or tragic in the moment lead to amazing things later that we cannot predict. Sometimes, the suffering in the moment leads to evolution down the line that may not even be noticed or seen.”
Sometimes, the suffering … leads to evolution….
How true is that! There is the suffering we feel ourselves, and the suffering we feel for and about others. Sometimes we can really feel what’s out there. But we cannot hold the weight of the world, otherwise we would be bent over and unable to walk if that was the case.
Your awareness of the suffering of others can be compassion, a sense of understanding of what others are going through. The same of applies to you: to have compassion and understanding of what you’re going through. You can allow yourself to feel your suffering, look for the pictures behind it (the reasons you’re going through your emotional pain), clean them out, then release the emotional pain. Sometimes that release takes time, but your suffering is not permanent unless you make it so.
We all have the Light of the World within us.
We all have the Light of the World within us. We are not our pain, although we can feel pain.
I was doing a reading today and saw that the overwhelm and the painful childhood memories that were coming up for this person was covering up her immense capability and beauty underneath. Her layers of distractions of disappointment and low self-worth didn’t allow her to see who she really was beneath them. But she was there.
Your suffering is an opportunity to find your strength.
As we discover who we really are, through meditation of whatever method you use, you can remind yourself that your suffering is an opportunity to find your strength and capability and move forward. Without that emotional pain you might not have found that strength of being.
I’ve been reading some blogs that talk about God or the Creative Force of the Universe as the “Ground of Being”. That is a wonderful way to look at it. We can ground through the God Within, or the Ground of Being. That is a great way to feel free.
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Best regards,
Rev. Laura Hopper
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