Article July 16, 2007 Issue

PAIN—MUST WE LIVE WITH IT?

ELIZABETH MATA

ORIGINALLY PUBLISHED IN THE CHRISTIAN SCIENCE MONITOR

I SAW A TELEVISION SHOW that presented pain-management programs designed to help people keep chronic pain under control. Even though the motives for these programs were obviously impelled by a great compassion to relieve suffering, is finding a way to live with pain the only way out?

While we might feel like Jeremiah in the Bible when he said, "Why is my pain perpetual, and my wound incurable, which refuseth to be healed?" (Jer. 15:18), it is possible to be free of chronic pain. Asking God to show us the way through prayer opens our thought to the natural and perpetual harmony that comes with being governed by God. It's heavenly, right here on earth.

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