SETHORUNZI: My Thoughts & Rhymes

"I am sorry we may have encountered some complications as the labour has been on for far too long" the doctor said. While consultations were on going, she screams in excruciating pain. Exasperated she was with little or no strength to push any further but she still kept on travailing with the hope of having her first child after 7 years of waiting in sight. Just when the doctor was concluding with her husband, the midwife in-charge came rushing in, "...he is out " she screamed with exhilarating joy and a with a wide grin on her face. Down on his knees the husband went with a huge sigh, he exclaimed " GOD IS GOOD!" "God is good" is a phrase we can relate with and even express subconsciously, but not PAIN IS GOOD. "God is good, all the time" we usually say with little effort is put into weighing up its meaning. God's strength is made manifest in our weakness and pain. Not that God enjoys us being in pain but He sometimes let us g...

Pain is good. A statement you probably expect to be credited to an insane individual. As I sat there, all I thought about was the possibility and plausibility of that being true. Pain is good? Pain is good simply won't sink as there was no way my human mind could wrap its tentacles around that "truth" as all facts suggests otherwise. The Preacher-man keeps hammering...the Purpose of pain, the purpose of Suffering! All his words were summarized in these 3 words -PAIN IS GOOD. A 35 year old moral standing lady without a husband, fiancé or a thread of hope of having one...and you say pain is good? Couple married 10 years without a child and you say pain is good. 7 year after university without a job eating from hand to mouth. That abused teenage girl. The Young boy with no home or shelter. The widow whose husband never returned home. The man hit by a stray bullet, struggled to survive but now a cripple. That prospective man confined to a world on a wheelchair. My friend lo...