Sharp Pain

If you want to know about sharp pain, ask not a person with a headache,
but a married woman without a child,
Ask a wealthy man or a king without a son,
Ask a father with a fool for a son,
Ask a mother with a ten year old daughter who looks and behave as a twenty year udult,
Ask a separated couple,
Ask a hungry person with no plan or hope for food.
They can write you a book about Sharp pain.

A person/ spouse needs your unwavering support and unconditional love when they are,
down in their sick hospital bed,
Have a courtcase hanging over their shoulders,
Have their business and assets frozen/ liquidated,
Unemployed, blacklisted and depressed,
Lost their last parent, a child, brother or a sister,
Having a difficult boss, who want sexual favours
(something your partner may never have strength to tell you)
Owe money and can not make a repayment,
It's a Sharp pain.

We have a tendency of being there for people who are doing well and neglet those who need a shoulder to cry on.
We pay lip service to terms like, friend, buddy, mpintshi, chomma, and never do what the word requires.
I don't need anyone to show me love and support when,
- I am out of the hospital,
- Nursing my 1st baby at age 45,
- Employed again,
- Successfully bounced back in business,
- Having success in my marriage,
- When I have found an organ donor.

It's amaizing how things fall on those who already have their hands full.
Financial education is much more accessible to those who already have money than those in need.
We even advertise on the net, what about the poorest of them all?
It's more like the rain likes the sea more than the land where people have planted crops.
Drugs are plenty where poverty rule with an iron fist.
Funny, a drug dealers son does not take drugs.....
A daughter of a pimp is not a prostitute....
It's a Sharp Pain

Jesus fed over 5000 hungry people who were not even Christians,
Today over 5000 hungry christians feed one pastor, all they get is his a bumper sticker with a pastor's face in return.
Jesus walked with 12 Disciples,
Today pastor's walk with 12 bodyguards
All this is a sharp pain that an asprin can not numb.

In most cases we think support is having sweet words to say or money to spend on a person, not so.
- A text saying:
"Hey, I trust you well"
"It's gonna be fine"
"Thinking of you"
"I know how you feel"
is all it takes to bring hope and a smile.

- Have you ever felt pain when your body is not painfull?
- When you visit a grieving person, sometimes you just have seat quietly next to them.
- Words can be easily misunderstood at times.
- Support is not money all the time, but your presence or thoughts in writing.

I have felt pain before and I still do from time to time,
I know the sharp pain you've been or still going through,
The feeling that says, "nobody cares"
When you feel like people are talking about your situation.
When you trust no one.
When it feels like it will never end,
God has a way out of your situation, you are in it to gain wisdom.

Psalm: 34.
18. The Lord is close to the brokenhearted and saves those who are crushed in spirit.

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