They let me see their pain.
Today I saw pain.
Not the pain that powerful chemicals can dull.
But the pain that so often we hide from others. The pain that comes from having our normal lives ruthlessly interrupted. The pain that comes from not being able to do those important things that we often take for granted. The pain that hurts all over, yet whose source can’t be seen on a PET scan.
For one person, it was pain from not being able to provide care for her husband and her 94-year old mother, instead having to focus everything on her one hope to add years to her life in a battle with an unrelenting disease.
For another, it was a still two-week-fresh devastating diagnosis, and the fight of his life, for his life.
And for another, it was recurrance of a nasty cancer that had been gone for 13 months, that remission itself against huge odds.
They allowed me the special privilege of seeing what they hide most of the time from most people. They allowed me to connect with them in a special way, in a special place. And I’m honored by their trust.
We talked about how precious hope is, how important the opportunity to fight is. We prayed to the One who has the power to heal for healing. And I prayed to the One who has the power to remove their non-physical pain to do so for each of them.
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