tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8896828523766435700.post2709473316919294201..comments2019-04-29T08:20:04.958-07:00Comments on The First Wealth is Health: Man's Search for MeaningHolly Junehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13336226059828399613noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8896828523766435700.post-32674539233246665712010-09-07T02:10:40.109-07:002010-09-07T02:10:40.109-07:00Your posts are always so timely. Thank you for the...Your posts are always so timely. Thank you for the insights you have, and then share.<br /><br />I do not know if Taylor has shared much with you about his papa. He, like me, suffers from Peripheral Neuropathy. He has been suffering with it much longer than I have and I am pretty sure my pain is nothing compared to what he endures. I honestly do not know how he manages his pain and suffering. His is especially bad at night, which keeps him from receiving much sleep.<br /><br />During all those hours when his suffering is most intense, he uses those hours to better himself. He has, among other things, taught himself a foreign language. He has also used the time, in the depths of his own pain, to contemplate, then write about, his own feelings and knowledge about the Savior. He has written a 2-book series based on this. I have read a good portion of book 1, and it is amazing. My brother is such an example of how to deal with physical suffering. Me, I try and endure with dignity, also, but am afraid I am more the "whiny baby" than he could ever be.<br /><br />As you can see with the lateness of the hour of this comment, nights are a bit tough for me, as well. That is why I found this post to be so timely, and touching. I know there is great truth in your words. But, I am feeling agitated and not quite sure how to put them into application. Lately, I feel like I am "kicking against the pricks", as described in the New Testament. I seek to find the meaning of my own suffering, and in the suffering of others.<br /><br />I have been to the concentration camps in southern Germany, at Dachau. Even though it was tens of years "after the fact", the brutality and awfulness of what happened there still permeated the grounds. It is horrible to even reflect on the suffering that man can cause for other human beings. And, that people like Victor Frankl, and others, found ANY meaning through it all, AND survived? Well, that alone verifies the<br />divine in man, to me.<br /><br />This post has touched me to tears this early morning. Perhaps it gives me the courage to try yet again to find meaning to those things through which I have had to endure in this life, and continue to endure. It offers me another crumb of hope, and for that, I am very grateful.<br /><br />Thank you!<br /><br />Happy day, and night.Duckhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16444489056873476228noreply@blogger.com