Holy In Our Suffering

What's found holy in our suffering:

it's not that we must first endure hardship in order to become a better version of ourselves, nor are we tested in regard to building our resolve. Life isn't an experience of transcendental value. Sometimes we suffer. It's just what life offers in certain moments. There doesn't have to be a deeper meaning. Our acceptance is simply that it's present, nothing more, no need to assign any significance to this other than our hurt. That's what's found holy in our suffering, this shared hurt, the depth we've all reach in how much we've endured. It's personal, and shared, belonging to all of us and to ourselves alone. We don't transcend this, there is no other side to suffering. Only life offering something other than before, continuing in motion. 

what's found holy is our shared expression as life, unique to us alone, and yet common  in its theme of highs and lows. We all suffer. But life is never less beautiful than it is right now. It's the very same moment. Even our wish to escape any deep hurt is a shared value, no less holy than being stoic in response. It's all sacred in its way. 

life is completely ordinary, and it's miraculous that we belong - this is really all we need to know, that we're not excluded from the whole in anyway and that this means life will bring it's share of everything. Suffering included. What we go through doesn't make us special, it confirms the holiness of being human, of a shared belonging. 

always together. 

~

Peace, Eric