How Appropriate

I was reading my usual blogs this morning, and I came across a post from Jen at Conversion Diary about her 3rd labor, and how she came to understand the concept of “offering it up” just a little bit better through her very hard labor. You can read it here.

Seeing how my own experience of powerful physical suffering is impending (just about 7 weeks from now) I am so fascinated by this post. I’d like to say I’ve given a lot of thought to how to offer up labor suffering for certain intentions, but I haven’t.

I think now I will try.

If you’ve been through labor, or another intense experience of physical (or mental) suffering, did you “offer it up”? Was this hard to do?