Related to last RT, and speaking as someone with a very painful chronic condition, it bugs me how fucking difficult the American Christian Protestant culture around suffering has made it to talk in any kind of a nuanced way about how we emotionally process actual suffering.
The construction of suffering as somehow purifying and holy means that it’s really hard to discuss aspects of the experience of suffering that... honestly maybe aren’t entirely across-the-board negative depending on how one’s relationship with it functions.
My immune system has been hellbent on destroying my mouth for the better part of a year now, it’s miserable, and yet I would not call the experience 100% negative spiritually and emotionally. It’s very complicated. But I feel like it’s nearly impossible to talk about.
So thanks. Thanks for that.
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