We all have painful experiences in life, but redeemed pain is more impressive than removed pain. What good can be found within in our pain?

Sometimes I am given a gift voucher.

It has no value tangibly in itself. It is but a piece of plastic the size of a credit card.

The value lies within what has been loaded onto it. Some kind person has placed a dollar value into its electronic magnetic memory (don’t ask me how this works).

Then, if I remember that I have this card and the money on it, I can go to a store and ‘redeem’ the value of what has been placed on this card.

I can exchange the card and receive back something good. 

We don’t use the word ‘redeem’ very much but it comes from the two words re- ‘back’ + emere ‘buy’.

Redeem means to ‘buy back’. 

I present the card and the shop owner buys it back to the value placed on the card.

I would like to suggest you have a card in our purse or wallet and on it contains all the painful experiences you have had.

Ouch, for some this card would have a lot of weight to it. A lot of energy, grief, pain, loss, anger, resentment, bitterness, etc is locked up in that card.

That card is heavy and you carry it around with you everywhere you go.

It eats away at us. It changes us. The thinking patterns in our brain are trained by this burden.

What can be done with the energy of this pain?

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