This Pain Has a Timer

This hurts and it's never going to stop.

This hurts right now — and 'right now' ends.

Pain feels permanent while you're in it. It almost never is. Adding a time limit to the sentence doesn't shrink the pain, but it shrinks the fear, and the fear is half the weight.

Use it when: Physical pain, heartbreak, a brutal week, waiting for bad news.

Backed by: D&C 121:7 — Joseph Smith, months into a freezing jail cell, is told his adversity will be "but a small moment." God's answer to pain was a timestamp. Psalm 30:5 — "weeping may endure for a night, but joy cometh in the morning." Even ancient Israel counted pain in overnight units, not permanent ones. Revelation 21:4 — the eventual, total end of the timer: "there shall be no more death, neither sorrow, nor crying, neither shall there be any more pain: for the former things are passed away."

What He’d say

Peace, my child. This adversity will be but a small moment. I know it doesn't feel small — but it has an end, and I'm already standing on the other side of it.

(His words from the passage above, spoken to you.)

See also: The Check Is Written, the Date Is Blank · Enduring Means Feasting, Not Flinching

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