Sometimes the journey requires pain. Don’t run.

Ever been put in a position where pain was the right option, but fear kept you from choosing it. Right now as I type this my right foot is going through spasms. It feels like how your leg feels just before a muscle contraction. It is not really painful yet, but I know that release will only comes from pain, However, because I know it will really, really, really hurt I am trying not to cause the muscle to contract. The byproduct, I can’t move my foot. It feels weird too, the spams are involuntary so it seems like my right leg has a mind of it own. As I sit here waiting for the pain that will inevitably come, to arrive. I am reminded of this: We can’t be afraid of pain. It is inevitably. Learn to accept it.  Sometimes on the journey pain will be required to get us where we need to be.  Don’t try to evade it, it will only keep us from our destination.

“We are hard pressed on every side, but not crushed; perplexed, but not in despair; persecuted, but not abandoned; struck down, but not destroyed” (2 Corinthians 4:8-9).

So what’s my plan of attack? Endure through the pain, don’t run from it.