Pain Changes People!

I have watched this phrase circulate around facebook for a couple of years now. Every time I see it, I always have the same thought.... It sure does!

It is a fact, pain does change people... physical , mental, it doesn't matter, it changes you. You can't help that, it can't be prevented ... but what you CAN change is, HOW it changes you.

About three years ago something awful happened to me! Something that I could never imagine would have happened to me in ten billion years!
I was in a lot of mental pain and, I let it make me a different person. The pain was so great and, I decided after some time that I actually kind of *liked* the pain as, it had become comfortable. It became a place that I knew and, if I was there, I couldn't get hurt anymore right?
But, the reality was, I had become a shell of a person and, frankly a person I didn't even like anymore.

It took something else pretty awful to happen to me for me to realize this about myself.
I again find myself in pain but, I have chose to deal with this pain differently. It HAS changed me... no doubt about it but,this time,  not in a negative way. I decided to learn from it, grow from it and, let the pain take its coarse because, as the Bible promises "this too shall pass".
I won't be in this pain for ever... I am choosing to NOT stay comfortable in it. If it creeps up, I let it pass.. I know that I won't feel that EXACT way for ever.

So, yes, pain changes you but, YOU can chose how.
 Pain doesn't have to change you negatively ... SO, don't let it!