Yesterday I was walking around and I felt something sharp on the bottom of my foot. It wasn’t constant, but being on my feet all day, I would feel this uncomfortably sensation and at one point thought, “it feels like I have a piece of glass in my foot.” I went through the day walking around with the discomfort. When I got home and took my shoes off, I realized I literally had a piece of glass in my foot all day

Why did I not check earlier?

I have no good explanation for you.

But as I reflect on it, I realize sometimes we cannot control the pain we experience, but sometimes we can.

If you are experiencing pain in your body, mind or soul, invite you to join me to…

pause. breathe. pray.

If we have a choice to not experience the pain, may we be wise enough to pause and assess so we don’t cause ourselves unnecessary pain, like I did.

If we don’t have a choice, may we draw close to God to help us, and reach out to those He put beside us to help us through to the other side.

And may we remember there always is another side to the pain

With love and hope,

Shawn

Praise be to the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of compassion and the God of all comfort, who comforts us in all our troubles, so that we can comfort those in any trouble with the comfort we ourselves receive from God. - 2 Corinthians 1:3-4