Pain is more than physical: the story your body is trying to tell
Pain is a signal. It gets our attention. It arrests, alarms, and demands we listen. C.S. Lewis wrote in the problem of pain: “God whispers to us in our pleasures, speaks in our conscience, but shouts in our pain: it is His megaphone to rouse a deaf world.” And what a deaf world we have become.
Pain is physical—a sign of tissue damage. It’s defined as “physical suffering or discomfort caused …
