What to Do with Your Pain - ABCDE

Pain Makes You a Philosopher (Sermon at West Loop Church on Sep 9, 2018).

1. Accept it, not avoid it.
2. Bear with it, behold it, not blur it or bury it.
3. Confront it, not complain about it.
4. Deal with it, not deny it.
5. Embrace it, not erase it.

“...taking life seriously means...that whatever man does... has to be done in the lived truth...of the rumble of panic (pain) underneath everything. Otherwise it is false.” Ernest Becker, The Denial of Death.