Love Note #4

My Dearest Friend,

I woke up yesterday morning feeling like I had been kicked multiple times by a mule that was feeling particularly prejudiced towards me. Some really serious pain that I’m still trying to work through.

Please know that when you are in physical pain, I’m with you in spirit — uniting my experience to yours through our mutual encounter with the Divinity that guides our aims.

You have the strength to endure all things. I believe you can do this. Does that mean you should not try to relieve your pain? By no means! Exercise every option you have to be better and feel better.

But particularly in those quiet, vulnerable moments when nothing you can do seems to make it better, when you must simply endure your experience, I have faith that you can be strong and find peace. Even if you have to do it one moment, one breath, at a time.

My dearest friend, thank you for being a doer of hard things. Thank you for being brave. Thank you for showing other people the patience and love that can come through pain.

With my love,

John S.