Beauty From Pain
A couple of months ago we invited Superchick in to play for us and there latest CD is title Beauty from Pain. Today I had an awesome breakfast with a guy I have known for 9 years and his story is awesome about the beauty that God is doing in his life after the pain of some personal stuff. I also had a great conversation with another guy I have known for 7 years at lunch today about how he is working through some recent pain of a broken relationship. I have had NUMEROUS conversations with people in the past three weeks that are dealing with pain and some are just kind of sitting on their pain and dwelling on it and feeling sorry for themselves and others who are dealing with the pain and allowing God to show their true beauty.

I believe that God has this awesome thing, this awesome beautiful thing He wants to show us, He wants us to be and we don't have to settle for living in the pain. How many times do we complain about someone mistreating us, not giving us what we FEEL we deserve, being dumped, overlooked, yelled at, disrespected and we settle for compaining or fighting back or pointing fingers at people, ripping people apart and instead of making a beautiful thing we make garbage out of our pain, we trash people around us, we graffitti the world around us with ripping remarks, critical comments, and angry get even statements.

As we look at pain in our lives, do we allow beauty to come from the pain or do we make ugliness come out of our pain