An offering of pain

   I was reflecting on someone else's use of a stick to punish their children. I would not want to do that, ever. These people believe one should not use their hands for such things. I felt that if they perceived physical discipline to be neccessary, the hand would be more appropriate. With the hand you get as much sting as would the child, I would imagine. It is more intimate and personal, taken more seriously by parent. You share in the pain you are inflicting. A stick would be impersonal, detached, uninvolved and less intimate.
   Then I was given the thought to occur to me: does our heavenly Father and His Yahushua share in our pain when it is we they are disciplining? When we are disobedient we are distanced from Him, so how could He? and so I offered them my pain from discipline. It then was given to occur to me that how could they know it if we hold it in and do not offer it? And yet our emotions are the only thing we have to give to Him that we can call our own. everything is material and already belongs to Him. emotion is the only thing we generate and keep for ourselves, I was given to come to know some time ago. We tend to share joy freely, but not our pain. it is the only pearl we see no value in sharing. Our pain is an appreciation in some way.....an acknowledgement that it means something to be disciplined in righteousness. A repentence and a plea for understanding come with it. Interesting.