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Sermon Illustrations: Pain

Pain is like an alarm. Sometimes you get huge amounts of pain for relatively minor things. If somebody bends your fingernail back, it's torture. Your body is saying, "Take care of this. I don't care if you didn't finish your sandwich." If you don't have pain, you'll think, maybe I'll finish my sandwich. That's not good for survival. Interview with leading surgeon Kenneth Kamler (expert on the body's ability to adapt to hostile environments) as reported in Readers Digest December 2004 p 50