Cornerstone Community Church, San Jose Ca

“WHEN PAIN WEARS YOU DOWN: MAKE A PLACE FOR GRACE” How To Handle Pain Without Becoming One February 16, 2014 Cornerstone Community Church The game, my older brothers told me, is called “99.” Actually it was only a game to them; it certainly wasn’t a game for me. They would pin my scrawny body to the ground and hold my arms down by placing their knees on my elbows, and then they would proceed to administer 99 light taps to my sternum. They weren’t hard blows, mind you; I could not honestly complain that they were “hitting” me. They were just taps – one after another after another. But by the time the count got to about 60 or 70, those taps began to take their toll. My bony little sternum got sorer and sorer. And by the time they got into the 90s, each tap felt like I was being slugged. One or two taps was no big deal. Thirty or forty taps I could handle. But 99 taps – that was misery.