Whether it’s physical pain, mental pain, or emotional pain, trying to mask it can make THE PAIN grow.
Sometimes we mask it with medication and have this false sense of strength and overdo things that when the meds wear off, a surge of the pain hits even stronger than how it began.
Sometimes we mask it by avoiding, resisting or minimizing the pain. Ironically, this eventually also makes the pain grow.
But when we allow for the pain and feel it in a healthy way, WE are the ones that grow through a new awareness, through empowerment of owning our feelings and choices, and not being afraid to feel negative emotion. We grow from being able to believe NEW truths of who we are in Christ, and laying down a new, different foundation, grounded and rooted in His love.
