Tuesday, September 20, 2011

How much pain are you in?

I'm not tired at all. It's 12:45 am and I've only got one thing on my mind: pain.
We always ask our patients to give us their rating of pain, on a scale of 0-10. Zero being: they aren't in pain at all and ten: they would rather be dead (for clarification- no... I don't actually ask my patients if they would rather be dead, but you get the idea). It is quite an effective little scale and even young children can comprehend what we are trying ask them... especially if it means giving some more morphine to cope with what's going on with their bodies.
It is this concept that has kept me awake so long. Not necessarily the subject of morphine, physical pain, but more along the lines of emotional pain... being hurt. When we are hurt, we feel a multitude of things such as: anger, abandonment, confusion, we feel unloved, unwanted, etc. I, personally, feel these things on a pretty rare occasion and most of the time, it has been on the account of someone else that I love being hurt.
For some reason, I have never understood the full extent of how God feels pain. I haven't really thought about it in these last few months anyway... and in all honesty, when I'm in pain, I only think of myself. For some reason, I have finally come to the realization that God does feel pain. He feels pain when I don't communicate with him, when I don't take his advice, or when I choose anything else over him. I realized fully today that this is how he feels every time I do something against him: he feels disappointed, abandoned, unloved, unwanted. He feels the hurt just as strongly as I do. I don't know if he keeps a continuous pain scale going, but I'm pretty sure I've caused him many "tens" and today, I really wished I had some morphine to give him.

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