Pain Points to Healing

"We live in the meantime, when the Church is charged with unraveling the curse, pushing back the Fall, proclaiming not that “All is well,” but that all shall be well again. We shouldn’t mock the pain of the world by telling the wounded that everything’s fine. We remind them that if there’s pain, it points to healing; if Creation is groaning as in the pains of childbirth, it points to a new Creation... on those days when the kids aren’t sick, the car isn’t in the shop, we haven’t lost our jobs, and all seems well, we must remember that it isn’t a picture of the way things are but a precious glimpse of the way they will be, forever, for everyone in Christ, when the Kingdom comes in its fullness."

- A quote from All is Not Well by Andrew Peterson on the blog The Rabbit Room