Many years ago, someone invented the duel layered glass
window pane. The theory is, with a small
amount of dead air between the sheets of glass, a thermal barrier would be
created to reduce the passive transfer of heat.
Then someone came up with the idea of adding a heavy noble gas like
Argon. Argon is heavier than air and
therefore provides an even greater thermal barrier.
So why are my thoughts on thermal pane windows? I don’t know, but I woke up the other day
with those words stuck in my mind. Not
the word pane, but pain; Thermal Pains.
That’s right, the pains in our lives that create barriers
for the transfer of emotional warmth and comfort. We tend to allow the passive back and forth transfer
of warmth and comfort when our heart pain is at a minimum; ergo the idea of Thermal
Pains. Pains of this nature prevent
closeness to God and others. They’re
barriers built upon lies believed to be true.
And so often we don’t even know we believe them. That’s what a good lie is all about –
deception.
My thoughts run in this direction. Pain, heart and soul pain; the kind that
sticks deep in us and often unknown to us, skews everything we do, say and even
think. It’s a pain that’s there, but we
can’t put our finger on it. We can’t
seem to isolate it nor identify it, so we tend to just live with it. And it affects every aspect of our life.
Without proper resolution and removal of such pain, which
few attempt because of its enigmatic nature, the tendency is to just “live with
it”. Like that ache in our joints as we
get older. Like that short term memory
issue we seem to have the older we get.
Like that chronic non-life-threatening health issue that we just “buck-up”
and “live with”.
But why? Why do we tolerate
it?
I suppose it’s because we’ve been told life is tough. Pain happens.
Disappointment is always with us.
Hey even Jesus said “in this world you will have trouble”. Albeit the divine caveat was His assurance of
peace and the reminder that He has overcome the world; yet it is a battle for
truth and reality that many still wage. And
I’m no exception.
But here’s the deal, I was reading about the effectiveness
of this heavy noble gas call Argon, as a thermal barrier, and in parallel with
my thoughts on pain being a barrier for emotional warmth and comfort, and guess
what? I found out the gas named Argon is
derived from a Greek word (αργον) meaning “lazy” or “the inactive one” and
tends to undergo almost no chemical reaction.
It’s stable, but is very resistant to “bonding” with other elements.
Dig this. Argon is
relationally lazy or inactive and struggles to bond with others. I’m smiling right now as I stretch my analogy
a bit further. Forgive me?
Pain, based upon lies we believe to be true, will always and
ever create a thermal barrier against the warmth and comfort derived from
genuine relationships based upon Truth.
Pain, like argon makes us relationally lazy or inactive. We struggle with bonding to the good in
relationships (others and self); because our life is felt and viewed through the
perspective of this “argonian-pain” (my made up word). A heavy lazy barrier that keeps us from the
best parts of life, namely the warmth and comfort derived from God, others, and
yes even our true self who God made us to be.
Okay, I know my thoughts may be digressive sometimes, bear
with me. If we cannot or better yet,
will not be free from the pain in our hearts, we will NEVER find the true connections
God has ordained for us in this life and beyond.
So let’s shatter those Thermal Pains and let the passive warmth
and comfort of God’s love radiate right to the center of who we are. Bringing life and reality to the very person we
were born to be. Because holding onto
pain is a lazy act. Let’s get active and
release that heavy ignoble element from our hearts and fully experience all of
what God has for us in Christ Jesus our Lord – and in communion with others.
Amen & Selah
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