Some Quick Inspiration (warning - it's from a priest in a movie)

funkykey · December 2016

The other night, DH and I went to go see Jackie (new movie - I loved it so much).

There's a scene where she is talking to a priest, asking why me (basically). And the priest tells a story about Jesus, which I later learned is from John 9: 1-12:

As he went along, he saw a man blind from birth. His disciples asked him, “Rabbi, who sinned, this man or his parents, that he was born blind?”
“Neither this man nor his parents sinned,” said Jesus, “but this happened so that the works of God might be displayed in him.

Kind of an odd place to find inspiration, in the movie theatre, but I thought that was so beautiful.

During this IF journey, I've spent so much time thinking about everyone who has ever said anything to me about their own reproductive health or potency. While logically I know - I know - they shouldn't take their luck for granted, or take credit for their good fortune - I am often silent about our own situation, because I sense discrimination, a kind of unspoken current that many believe this has happened to us because we aren't supposed to have children, or something. I've grappled with those thoughts myself - I've dismissed them as obscene, but it's not like it hasn't crossed my mind, or that I haven't felt any shame about it, illogical as that may be.

Maybe that's why the parable struck me - like, this has not happened to us to punish us, but so that the miracle of conception and birth might be revealed in us.

Anyway, thought I'd share in case anyone is struggling today.

kaitlink33 · December 2016

Needed this. Thank you

PoeMasque · December 2016

I used to think I could find the "reason" behind everything (because it was beat into me that "God has a plan!").

When i finally allowed myself to say, there is no reason, there is no perfect, there is just life and sometimes there isn't a nicely packaged message or lesson in it I felt SO much better. I was free from having to "learn" something from every stumble, cause sometimes it's just a stumble and nothing more.

Having misfortune doesn't make anyone special or put on earth to "do something great". Having misfortune is actually normal, we all have it in some way and we all have to figure out how to deal. Sometimes I think about the roadblocks others face and feel lucky that (so far) I have been able to endure mine, I'm sure they feel the same way too.

funkykey · December 2016

The idea that misfortune is normal, that suffering is normal - to me, that's the same as the parable.

To me, it's comforting to see my own personal struggles as being normal - like any other suffering - but also to think that human suffering, overall, in the abstract on a collective scale, provides an opportunity to ease pain in the future. Not that there is a reason that I, personally, am experiencing some pain - over anyone else - but that in general, on a grand scale (where I am just a faceless cog in the wheel) pain exists so we can learn to cure it.

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