A Difference

My thought for the evening...

There is a difference between complaining and grieving.
We complain because we have not properly grieved.

Complaining is resistence to pain.
Grief is entering into it fully.

Complaining involves focusing on what is external and temporary.
Grieving involves attending to the internal and the eternal.

We complain because we are fearful of pain.
Why are we fearful of pain?
Pain can be endured; fear cannot.

Complaining is not being content.
Grief is the proper response to pain.

It is not improper to be content with pain.
But it is also proper to grieve.

And when we have given our pain the grief, not the complaining, it deserves,
Then can we know joy.
Then can we see the golden light and the dryads dancing together as one.



Thoughts, anyone?