Dancing and Pain

Even before Pastor Darrell pointed out that the prodigal son's homecoming was no happy celebration for the fatted calf, I've been thinking a lot lately about how even good things sometimes have their downside, but you've gotta be brave and GO FOR IT anyway. Life itself is a mixed blessing, isn't it?

I'm not a country music fan, but I love the line in the old Garth Brooks song, The Dance--

I COULD HAVE MISSED THE PAIN,
BUT I'D OF HAD TO MISS THE DANCE.

Not proper grammar, but you get the point. Life is a mixed blessing. Dancing and pain. Pain and dancing.

I'm sooooo glad life is short, and then we have ETERNITY where it's ALL dancing and NO pain, aren't you?!