A Thought About Suffering

I have some friends who are having a very challenging and difficult time coming to terms with not being able to have children. They live inside of a conversation that something's wrong and they should be able to have children. Another version of that is "Why aren't we able to have children?" That will keep you in suffering.

I think that it's God's business whether or not we are able to have children and it is our challenge in life to let go of such a destructive thought. Destructive because it keeps you bound and in pain. It's the thought that does that not what is happening.

We are trained to think that it is what happens to us that causes us suffering. Not true. The truth is that it is our thoughts that cause us to suffer.

You'll never see a dog who can't have puppies walking around howling and depressed because of that. Why? Because animals don't have language. They don't have thoughts like we do. Language causes our experience. We experience what we experience because we are thinking thoughts that give us that experience.

But this message is unconventional and most people refuse to give up their painful thoughts because they believe that they are those thoughts. That their thoughts are them.

Who would my friends be without their painful thoughts? They would be free to be themselves. To be the fullest expression that God would have them be on this planet.

I am a strong Christian with charismatic beliefs and I believe that God heals people. He has healed me and a number of my friends -but that is still God's business. I will never presume to know why or why not God heals one person over another. It is none of my business. Just like I don't know why you choose to do this action or that. It is your business what actions you do and I am not privy to that -unless you tell me why.

But if I can choose to give up the belief that "something's wrong here" than I will live in peace. I will accept what is and work with it. Then if God chooses to heal me it would be great and if he chooses to not heal me that would be great too. In the meantime I get to live my life in peace and free.

I would rather be free than in pain.