{"id":4841,"date":"2016-04-06T09:00:28","date_gmt":"2016-04-06T13:00:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/lettinggo\/?p=4841"},"modified":"2016-04-04T10:32:36","modified_gmt":"2016-04-04T14:32:36","slug":"the-invisible-path-that-leads-to-being-at-peace-with-your-pain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/lettinggo\/2016\/04\/the-invisible-path-that-leads-to-being-at-peace-with-your-pain.html","title":{"rendered":"The Invisible Path That Leads to Being at Peace With Your Pain"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>A Commentary and Exercise in How to Consciously Be Atoned With Life<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The suffering we are aware of can&#8217;t be separated from the awareness of that pain; <em>they appear together<\/em>. The question is: do we allow this pain, and its attending sense of self, to continue mechanically reconciling our suffering?<\/p>\n<p>Or&#8230;do we agree to <em>consciously suffer the Awareness of this lower level of self<\/em> &#8211; that includes <span style=\"text-decoration: underline\">its<\/span> pain &#8211; by standing in the Light of the Holy Spirit that reveals it to us, allowing this Presence to make whole what has been a deep-seated conflict too long concealed in &#8220;our&#8221; consciousness&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;So that in, and through this Celestial awareness a real atonement may be effected: where we enter into &#8211; and become one with &#8211; the ever-renewing estate of reconciliation that has always existed for a single Divine purpose: to bridge Heaven and earth.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Commentary and Exercise in How to Consciously Be Atoned With Life The suffering we are aware of can&#8217;t be separated from the awareness of that pain; they appear together. The question is: do we allow this pain, and its attending sense of self, to continue mechanically reconciling our suffering? 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