Recent Posts Tagged With 'pain'

• “Suck it Up” vs “That Really Sucks”: A Testimony of Presence

  Posted on Monday September 14th, 2009 at 03:53 in relationships, Emotions, pain, repentance, companionship, presence, emotional pain

  A post on Internet Monk (on how the church needs to be a place where we can find companionship in repentance) brought up some memories for me. I’d like to share one of them. At the beginning of 2008, I found myself embroiled in some utterly hor...

• Healing Without Closure

  Posted on Sunday July 13th, 2008 at 00:23 in relationships, pain, hurt, closure, resolution

  How do we heal in the absence of closure? As the old saying goes “Time heals all wounds.”, and in most cases, this is true. As we distance ourselves from a hurt we can begin to live and interact with less caution, to feel joy and happines...

• “Light, Ephemeral and Almost Fruity”

  Posted on Tuesday June 10th, 2008 at 13:31 in pain, stings, slacking, unrelated content

  . . .no, the above is not a description of a wine, but is instead of the pain inflicted by a sweat bee. Justin O. Schmidt, an entomologist, has been kind enough to create a pain scale for various sorts of insect bites, which can be found here. His de...