Numb

It's been said that smoke is God's gift to man. Smoke is the by-product of incomplete combustion. In the event of fire, the victim succumbs to smoke long before the heat ever reaches his body, the victim is spared the searing pain of burning flesh.

When people experience some extenuating circumstance, something which causes great pain (death, disaster, divorce, etc.), they will often describe a feeling of being "numb". Perhaps this "numb" feeling is God's gift to us.

If it were not for this numb-ness that we experience, the pain would be too great. We would be overwhelmingly crippled, physically, spiritually, and emotionally. Perhaps, it is in God's plan to use these periods of feeling numb to initiate healing, and to restore our strength.