The Power of Pain

If CS Lewis is preoccupied in 'The Problem of Pain', then I am interested in 'The Power of Pain'. While almost all scholars attempt to reason with pain and how pain come about, beating around the bush of 'Why God'? I find it far more fruitful to stop asking God why and start realizing the aftermath of every calamities.

Ranging from suffering, toil, hard-labor, agony, heartache to abuse, pain has the power of transforming us into a somewhat higher spiritual being. My observation of the power of pain begun as I stepped my feet onto the shaky ground of real life and I think, pain is the most rewarding experience we can ever get. it is when we are chastened that we ascend ourselves a step higher onto the hierarchy of what it means to be alive. Sometimes we do not understand why but all things work for the good of those who love Him and has been called in accordance to His purpose.

I was just in the doctor's office when I came accross an article in an elite magazine. Being a lady, the article caught my attention, for it was on the making of a pearl. After all jeweleries are girls' best friends. Mikimoto was a Japanese pioneer in the industry and how he cultured pearls were described. It all started with a dirt, a small grain of sand or in Mikimoto's case, he found a tiny chipping of mussel's shell to be the best 'dirt'. This 'dirt' are inserted into the oyster by means of first tricking the oyster by placing it in warm temperature for it to loosen its grip and inserting the 'dirt' with needle points. Attempting this stage with a force do not work. Upon discovering that there is a foreign object inside, the oyster will first try to remove it and when the object is too small to be removed, enzymes are produced and soon, layers are formed and eventually a pearl is created.

It is such pain that forces us to 'produce enzymes' and such pain that made us a better person, untill we produce 'pearls' in this lifetime. The more problems that come our way, the more we are forced to grow and the better we get as we produce 'pearls'. It all starts in our hearts, inside our hard and protective shells. As we deal with problems that come, we are coating them with layers and layers of strength, untill what was our problem, became something precious. The power of pain, has it transformed you lives?