pain

  • The Gift of Pain

    Years ago, a wise friend shared that she doesn’t pick her Lenten penance anymore, because God knows what she needs during the season of Lent and she trusts Him to send that penance her way at the right time. (I’ve… Continue reading

    The Gift of Pain

  • Of Suffering, Safety Nets and Kings

    Image: Pietro Jeng Over the past few weeks, PinayVoices has been hopping because of our posts on divorce. It can be draining. It’s exhausting to talk to unhappy women who, blinded by anger, can’t get past their own view of things… Continue reading

  • Defragmentation / Reintegration #6

    Bad day today. All kinds of hurting bad. :'( Show Me – Audrey Assad You could plant me like a tree beside a river You could tangle me in soil and let my roots run wild And I would blossom… Continue reading

  • Defragmentation / Reintegration #5

    He sits beside us in the lowest places of our lives, like water. Are we broken? He is broken with us. Are we rejected? Do people despise us not for our evil but for our good, or attempted good? He… Continue reading

  • Defragmentation / Re-Integration #4

    “From suffering comes wisdom” From Aeschylus: Day by day Bit by bit Pain drips upon the heart As against our will And even in our own despite Comes wisdom From the awful grace of the gods. Whatever the reason, for… Continue reading