tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8351254448680893221.post6241493990582638880..comments2023-10-06T03:22:42.774-07:00Comments on Karen-Ashley's Thoughts: To Avoid Pain or To Embrace JoyKaren Ashley Greenstonehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02656249405767308865noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8351254448680893221.post-59683181826869129952010-08-04T12:32:29.771-07:002010-08-04T12:32:29.771-07:00Julia, thank you for these comments. I think you a...Julia, thank you for these comments. I think you are right about the linking of joy and pain and the intensity of one leading to the intensity of the other. This is why, I believe, we don't have a world where pain is limited. I don't think that it's possible to limit our capacity to feel pain without also limiting our capacity to feel joy. Limiting our capacity to feel pain would limit our capacity to feel, period.Karen Ashley Greenstonehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02656249405767308865noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8351254448680893221.post-82687271146781379532010-08-03T18:14:15.102-07:002010-08-03T18:14:15.102-07:00I love these reflections. I'd never thought o...I love these reflections. I'd never thought of the fact that living with the goal of avoiding pain can lead to an attitude of simply waiting to die.<br />Interesting how joy and pain are often inexplicably linked. The intensity of the one seems to add to the depth of the other. For example, the pain of losing a loved one goes as deep as the bond of love shared. And victory is all the more joyful after having been previously defeated. Trapped as we are in time and space, pain would seem to be the ultimate evil - to be avoided at all costs. Yet life estranged from God is so tragic, that one would be blessed to have the gap bridged, regardless of the temporal pain or discomfort involved. Whether I fully live into this or not, I desire to glorify God, and enjoy Him forever: starting now and into eternity. And pain only hamper us so long.Juliahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15672719586274812897noreply@blogger.com