I once had a coworker tell me the pain of a kidney stone was the same as labor pain, so those of you who have had a kidney stone know what labor feels like. It's kind of silly but as I get older any pain in my body isn't measured from 1 to 10, it is measured to labor pains. So when I have a throbbing pain in my joint (as I do in my shoulder) I compare it to labor pains :-) or should I put :-(.
Anyway, over last year (it always brings awareness of this fleeting life with a new year) I began to realize all of life's experiences is like a birth. The process of labor and it's pain is unavoidable. Even the process of death is labor to a new birth.
The beauty of life for me now is measured as birth. I don't see death in this process, only of the flesh. We are born in flesh and we are born in spirit. When the labor pains stop there is life, glorious, beautiful life.
Unavoidable, mountains and valleys...
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Beauty with thorns...
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New life and birth to death to New life and birth again.
Video & Song
'Through It All', Hillsong
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=33aGaYAZvL4
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