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Jan 14, 2010, 05:03 PM
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Member Since: Jul 2009
Location: Phoenix, AZ, USA
Posts: 2,779
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jooker:
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After all, something that's been termed as the worse pain imaginable brings forth the most valuable thing we have on this planet -- life. I'm speaking, of course, of childbirth and labor pains.
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Rapunzel:
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Yes. I believe that we are sent to this world to discover who we really are, including how strong we are, what we can overcome, and the entire range of feeling and experience. Our Father in Heaven knows us and what we are made of, and won't give us more than what we can handle. I find it comforting to understand that.
Learning compassion for others is also part of it. If we had never experienced pain, how could we have empathy for others who are in pain? Neither could we fully experience and appreciate joy and peace and the opposites of suffering.
Finding meaning in pain and suffering is one of the best ways to cope. If it means something, then it isn't all pointless and for nothing.
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My personal beliefs are, that I agree with all that each of you have said with one more ingredient added. I also believe that all of this is mapped out for each of us before our souls ever arrive here on this earth in our human form.
And you also know that I have to inject a little humor into everything........
The one time I had a kidney stone, it took me four days to pass it. Finally on the last day, I was sitting in the emergency room, and the doc came through and I told him, PLEEASSEEE....give me something to kill this pain. This is worse than having a baby!!!!!
He said " SSHHH! Be quiet!!! We always tell the men that they are lucky they're not having a baby!"
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 Vickie
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