Tap into Pain

One of your greatest sources of inspiration will be life’s pains. As M. Scott Peck opens his book with, “Life is difficult.” It’s painful. Bad things happen along the way. It’s our responses to those bad things that define who we are. Will we respond well or will be respond badly?

It’s easy to suppress the painful memories. We’d rather not re-live the momentary agonies. But pain is a powerful universal truth.

Everyone experiences pain. So everyone can relate. While we all have different stories and experiences, pain is a common thread running throughout humanity.

We can use pain and create something beautiful from it.

In every tragedy there is hope. If we’re willing to explore life’s pain and mine the good, that gives us some of our most inspired creativity. Humanity needs hope. When we tap into the hope that supersedes pain, it speaks to people.

One of the most powerful elements of the Christmas story is hope in the middle of pain. A girl is pregnant out of wedlock. Almost nobody believes she wasn’t promiscuous. When she does get married, she and her husband are forced to move. When she finally arrives she goes into labor. There are no clean delivery rooms available…so she delivers in a stable. But the hope that’s born that night supersedes every pain endured.

That is what people relate to. Explore pain. Tap into it. Find the beauty veiled beneath.

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