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The Reality of Pain – Christine Valters Paintner

September 5, 2026

“The reality of pain is a given. When we deny this pain, we become prone to guilt and to becoming trapped in the spiral of self-blame and paralysis. These psalms [of lamentation] offer us as individuals and as communities of faith a way to pray together, speaking truth about pain and naming the reality we live in.”
 

Christine Valters Paintner, PhD, Earth, Our Original Monastery: Cultivating Wonder and Gratitude through Intimacy with Nature
 What are the truths of pain you’ve denied or have been denied to you?

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