So, I hit my thumb with a hammer

Well, not recently ... though I have in the past (and probably will again). Thing is, when I have hit my thumb with a hammer I didn't start painting my elbow with iodine or think it'd be a good idea to wrap my big toe with a band-aid.

Guess what else? The last time I got a splinter in my foot, I didn't rush to the phone and make an appointment with a dentist to have a tooth pulled. And the last time I had a stomach ache I didn't reach for the poison ivy lotion.

I mean, that's common sense ... right?

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I'm not sure anyone could count the number of ways people have dreamed up to fix what feels broken inside. Whether it's drugs, alcohol, sex, deceit, materialism, pride, pornography, wrath, greed, pride or foul language, seems like folks are constantly inventing new solutions to make the old pain stop ... or at least, to make it go away and give them peace for a little while.

Kind of like putting drops in your eyes after you've just had your leg burned off in a fire.

Doesn't make much sense to ignore the source of the pain, does it?

- from July 2, 2009 11:59pm