Comments on: Update on the root canal - The weirdness of tolerance for pain http://www.wildtangents.net/2006/02/23/update-on-the-root-canal-the-weirdness-of-tolerance-for-pain/ Marc talks about life in Nashville, life as a Catholic and life as a geek. Thu, 28 Aug 2008 11:44:23 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.3.3 By: Marc http://www.wildtangents.net/2006/02/23/update-on-the-root-canal-the-weirdness-of-tolerance-for-pain/#comment-59 Marc Fri, 24 Feb 2006 21:58:09 +0000 http://www.wildtangents.net/2006/02/23/update-on-the-root-canal-the-weirdness-of-tolerance-for-pain/#comment-59 Thank you for sharing Owen. I will keep this poor family in my prayers. Thank you for sharing Owen. I will keep this poor family in my prayers.

]]> By: Owen http://www.wildtangents.net/2006/02/23/update-on-the-root-canal-the-weirdness-of-tolerance-for-pain/#comment-58 Owen Fri, 24 Feb 2006 15:24:07 +0000 http://www.wildtangents.net/2006/02/23/update-on-the-root-canal-the-weirdness-of-tolerance-for-pain/#comment-58 "Anyway, I am expecting more of it tomorrow, so I’m asking for prayer requests. Let me clarify, I am not asking you to pray for me. This will pass. I will be alright. I am asking you to help me give this suffering some purpose. Please comment with your prayer requests. I will offer up this suffering to God for your intentions." This is the power and beauty there is in being Catholic. Something my Protestant friend fully do not understand, even as I did not. I know do, or at least, am beginning to understand. A dear, Protestant, brother in the Lord told me yesterday, over a very sad coffee, that he is loosing his marriage. His wife, who is bipolar disconnected from the marriage last year and has had more than one affair. Even so, my friend would receive her back, with boundaries but she is determined to part. They have kids and it is as ugly and sad as it ever is. This also affects my brothers ministry. Thank you Marc. “Anyway, I am expecting more of it tomorrow, so I’m asking for prayer requests. Let me clarify, I am not asking you to pray for me. This will pass. I will be alright. I am asking you to help me give this suffering some purpose. Please comment with your prayer requests. I will offer up this suffering to God for your intentions.”

This is the power and beauty there is in being Catholic. Something my Protestant friend fully do not understand, even as I did not. I know do, or at least, am beginning to understand.

A dear, Protestant, brother in the Lord told me yesterday, over a very sad coffee, that he is loosing his marriage. His wife, who is bipolar disconnected from the marriage last year and has had more than one affair. Even so, my friend would receive her back, with boundaries but she is determined to part. They have kids and it is as ugly and sad as it ever is. This also affects my brothers ministry.

Thank you Marc.

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