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St. Mary's Parish Nurse Ministry Program
Ruth E. Williams, RN, MEPD, MSN
| St. Mary's Parish Nurse Newsletter... January, 2002 |
Dear Viewers, Peace to the World and Happy New Year. "Many are the afflictions of the righteous, but the Lord delivers him out of them all." (Psalm 34:19) These past three months, since September 11, 2001, America and all humans have suffered much pain. This has been physical pain, psychological pain and spiritual pain after the bombing in New York. |
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Pain is not neutral. Pain is either good or bad and both need to be
dealt with. Pain is a warning to prevent harm to our bodies. Pain can
be acute and it is expected to have an ending. Chronic pain is now and
in the present and can reign over our lives forever. We as humans will
always experience pain and suffering. Pain can be managed with
medications and various therapies under the management of your health
care provider.
Let us focus on spiritual pain. We know that religion acknowleges pain. Romans 8:22 states "For we know that all Creation groans and travails in pain until now." We Americans responded quickly to the spiritual pain after September 11, 2001. This spirituality of pain was a suffering we all experienced as a community. Many of us asked why all this pain? This suffering led many people to return to their churches and religions to find hope, meaning and survival to lessen their pain and the pain of their neighbors. Jesus' concept of our neighbor is an individual as well as the wholeness of community and a nation. Thus as it states in Romans 8: 35, "Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? Shall tribulation, or distress, or persecution, or hunger, or nakedness, or danger, or the sword?" | |
| Ruth E. Williams, RN, MEPD, MSN 789 N. Central Richland Center, WI 53581 608-647-3280 e-mail: rew@mwt.net |
Copyright © 2001-2007. Revised April 30, 2005. |
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