What a person did when they were in pain said a lot about them.

pg 459

I wanted to show these people who he really was. And pain always did that, took the insides out."

pg 364

In the midst of pain, we begin to understand the price Jesus paid for our salvation.

It isn’t right to wish pain on other people just because they hurt me first.

He spoke three simple sentences and I understood why my injuries are permanent. Every hard moment, all the pain, had prepared me to walk beside my son. In a heartbeat, it was worth it. A decade later, it still is.

We have a genuine and devastating epidemic of opiate abuse in this country, and it is of critical importance that this problem be addressed. But we must do so in a way that doesn’t cut off an effective (and often the only) treatment for the chronically ill, many of whom are able to function in this world at all only because of the small respite that responsible opiate use provides.