Asking Questions with Valerie Woerner

Asking Questions with Valerie Woerner

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Which pain would you pick?

Which pain would you pick?

Ending the "Nirvana Search" in favor of fruit

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How much time and energy do you think we spend trying to escape pain? Me? It’s pretty high up there. I bet you do too. We’d have to be psychotic to actually want pain in our lives, so I mean, trying to escape pain doesn’t make us crazy.

But can I make a suggestion?

Stop it.

Stop trying to escape pain. As I was reading The Entitlement Cure by Dr. John Townsend, he made it clear.

“Life has no pain-free option.”

He calls the quest for the pain-free life the “Nirvana Search,” and that search will always come up empty this side of heaven.

There will be pain. But the best news ever? We get to choose what kind.

So let’s discuss:

Which pain would you pick?

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