Pensive. That IS what I was yesterday... Took the dogs to the park. As they ran around chasing their shadows... I sat pondering the process of the "refiners fire". You see... it IS said that if you are intent on growing ~ to be prepared for the refiners fire. I know what that really means ~ Pain. The process is painful... I know...because I have been placed in the Refiners Fire. I'm not sure that I want to be refined anymore ~ it hurts.
A silver smith will hold the piece of silver over the fire and let it heat up. In refining silver, one needs to hold the silver in the middle of the fire where the flames are the hottest as to burn away all the impurities. If the silver is left a moment too long in the flames, it would be destroyed. If you asked a silversmith, "How do you know when the silver is fully refined?" He'd answer, "when I see my image in it."
That jaunt in my mind took about 5 min. to play out. We were at the park for over an hour...
I have done my share of things that I am not proud of; that I regret. Into the refiners fire...burning away the impurities. It hurt. And I'm not finished, for I react and say things out of hurt and anger, that would be better left unsaid...
Thus marked the end of our trip to the dog park.
Came home to destroy more of my back yard and work out the rest of what was in my head. Does it hurt me ~ the things they have said? Indeed. But those are only words... I have known a deeper pain... feeling the deepest sorrow in knowing how miserable another person is...and knowing they may never experience peace and love... THAT has hurt me more; the pain of another.
Sticks and Stones may break my bones, but words will last a life time...
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