Thought for the Week: Gifts

Angela Arnold reflects on living life as a gift

by Angela Arnold 2nd December 2016

Some years ago I read that the thing to do with pain was to give it as a gift to God. Dear heavens, I thought, what kind of a ‘gift’ is that?

The author clearly didn’t mean that you could rid yourself of your pain by giving it away. So, what could it mean? The idea, the puzzle of it, stayed with me and, maybe because I have been in some physical pain recently, it popped up for me at Meeting for Worship the other day. And my mind ran with it.