Pain occurs when the seed of your calling sprouts into reality.
Pain is the strength of God.
Pain is the stretch of God.
Pain is the stay of God.
Pain is necessary nutrition for your soul.It seems nothing great is accomplished without the shedding of some kind of comfort in which we would love to remain. Yet, to find our calling, we are required to leave that comfort and allow God to break us, stretch us, fashion us into someone useful and productive for each other and for Him.
What a crazy pursuit--to find the purpose and place for which we are wired.
So--energy comes through pain. If you are seeking your calling, your passion, your fit in this world--and attempt to avoid pain and suffering--your seed coat cannot be broken. Your calling may remain dormant within.
From Bette Midler's The Rose:
Just remember...in the winter...far beneath the bitter snows,
Lies the seed...that with the sun's love...in the spring,
Becomes the rose.
I've often thought that sun might be the Son.
