Hi, and welcome to the Five Word Prayers Daily, a five-day-a-week daily devotional where we share the

word, prayers, and our heart. I'm Lisa Whittle, and I welcome you to just five minutes with me,

which I trust and pray will be five minutes well spent. I admit I'm a people studier, and I like

understanding people and knowing what's going on inside their hearts, and to some degree their heads. I'm glad, though, that I don't

know everything we're all thinking, aren't you? I sure don't want everyone to know what I feel and think,

but I wonder how many of us are walking around in the same condition. We're harboring hurt in some way.

I don't want to say all of us, but man, I bet it's nearly all. If we've lived very long, we've been hurt in some way by someone

letting us down or damaging us on purpose, a hard circumstance, or even a quick comment that we

never forget. And then we get into a cycle. You've heard that saying, right? Hurt people,

hurt people? I think it's true. A lot of us are hurting and we need to let go of it. Let's talk about

what that

looks like in just a few. Physical pain is a hard cross to barren life. I have friends who

deal with chronic pain. My sister actually has a chronic condition and that of MS. And it's

something she lives with. Like many of you listening

live with something. Lots of things come to my mind right now and people, and I myself have

lesser medical things I have to live with and regulate with medication like being a migraine

sufferer. This is just something I have to deal with. And I'm not minimizing it because it's a

very difficult place. It's been a difficult road for deal with. And I'm not minimizing it because it's a very difficult

place. It's been a difficult road for me sometimes. And I know some of my friends have it even

worse than I do. But physical pain is not the only kind of chronic condition many of us suffer

from. There are a lot of us in constant pain on the inside and we live with it. Sometimes I think we live with it because we don't

want to think about it. So we live in a place of denial. It's always there, but we can kind of suppress it

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