When we are feeling like our skin's on crooked, and there is no immediately recognizable cause...when there is no rhyme or reason or, to be more precise, no person or thing to blame...praying thank you without having a clue as to why calms our mind almost without fail.
Ponder this: unavoidable suffering, valid hurt, necessary suffering...against reasoning mind standards, each is for the benefit of our Soul. Each is of God and tells a story unto itself.
When experienced not by self-determination but by an inner need, our pain is not so much physical as an ever-deepening, albeit well-disguised, spiritual longing.
Examples from my personal experiences: unavoidable suffering, our egoic pain as we are being separated from a self-determined objective; valid hurt, our grief over the loss of someone or something we had held dear; necessary suffering, our giving over, giving up, giving in for the benefit of another...especially a less-than-loved person or habit in our life. This is the first step toward acceptance.
Again, unavoidable suffering, valid hurt, necessary suffering are of God...resist not, pray thank you and be calmed.
Thank you.
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