Surgical pain starts after the procedure of being cut open.
After my surgery I was medicated with narcotics to control and manage the pain. A part of the healing process I began to wean myself off of the narcotics. I was given a set of discharge instructions that advised me to ambulate at least 4 – 5 times a day. During the recovery process, as long as I was sitting still I felt pain in my body. The pain to me was nagging, uncomfortable and consistent resulting in me self medicating as opposed to ambulating to decrease the pain. I resorted back to narcotics because it took the pain away temporarily reducing the need to get up and move out of the position I was in day after day.
This is how we are in life. We connect to broken people to fulfill the brokenness (the emptiness) in our lives because we do not want to feel the pain of hurt, discouragement, disappointment or loneliness. We begin to self medicate the pain of knowing that this relationship is not for us. That it is decreasing who we are. That he/she is not able to love you the way you need to be loved. Yet we self medicate by accepting the pockets of temporary happiness that this relationship provides for us ignoring the increasing hurt and pain that we are subjecting ourselves to. The narcotics that we consistently administer to ourselves never take the pain away, it hides it for the moment. The moment to believe that the good outweighs the bad. The moment to believe that he/she will not hurt, manipulate or deceive us again when all we have to do is AMBULATE consistently throughout the day.
Ambulate and recognize to be free from the hurt and pain of a toxic relationship one must first forgive themselves. Connect to a power that’s higher than you. One who will love you no matter the flaws within you. In turn He will teach you how to love yourself. How to expect to be loved and how to love others. This type of love is called Agape love and it only develops when we are one with our Father in heaven.
I challenge you today to wean yourself off the narcotics and ambulate towards a greater purpose in life. God has greater in store for you. Brokenness and pain is a tool in the hands of God. Stop trusting in your ability to ignore the pain and start trusting in your God to ambulate you into your destiny by using those hurts and disappointments.
Remember hurt people hurt people and broken people break people. I remember someone telling me the first time I allowed myself to be subjected to a toxic relationship that I was the victim, but the moment I recognized it and continued in it I became a volunteer. Choose today which one you will be. AMBULATE!!
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