“Our culture has become so sophisticated in the avoidance of pain, not only our physical pain but our emotional and mental pain as well. 

“We not only bury our dead…..but we also bury our pains as if they were not really there. We have become so used to this state of anesthesia, that we panic when there is nothing or nobody left to distract us. 

“When we have no project to finish, no friend to visit, no book to read, no television to watch, no music to play, and when we are left all alone by ourselves we are brought so close to the revelation of our basic human aloneness. 

“We are so afraid of experiencing an all-pervasive sense of loneliness that we will do anything to get busy again and continue the game which makes us believe that everything is fine after all” 

By Henri Nouwen              Thanks to M Venter for the photo 

Like the Energizer Bunny you and I just keep going and going and going, but even the Energizer Bunny can’t go on forever, maybe a little longer than its competitors, but not forever. Sooner or later it has to stop, just as sooner or later you and I have to stop.

How often do YOU feel like the Energizer Bunny…..going and going and going?

WHEN THE SUNSHINE OF GOD’S LOVE MEETS THE SHADOWS OF OUR SORROWS, THE RAINBOW OF HOPE APPEARS!! 

An Energizer Bunny you know will enjoy today’s Treat and Podcast.