We continue our series on the New Covenant using the songs from the New Covenant musical as a track to run on. And there will be a link to a YouTube version of the song to listen to at the end of each Catch. Enjoy and learn.

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We are hard pressed on every side, but not crushed; perplexed, but not in despair; persecuted, but not abandoned; struck down, but not destroyed. 2 Corinthians 4:8-9

We All Get Hurt
Words and Music by Dale Annis

We all get hurt.
We always seem to end up face down in the dirt.
And hounded by the pain, we just remain
Satisfied to be hurt again.
We close our minds to the meaning in the madness that we find.
We prefer to hide out, and rarely try to find out
Just what pain is all about.

But if there’s one thing you need to know,
It’s that hurtin’ only makes you grow
And the pain you feel is the first step in bein’ healed.
Yes there’s one thing you need to do, it’s to get your eyes off you.
Place them on the Lord and he’ll make pain an open door.

We all get hurt.
We always seem to end up face down in the dirt.
Though hounded by the pain, we don’t need to remain
Satisfied to be hurt again.
Don’t close your mind to the meaning in the madness that we find.
Don’t you try to hide out, but really try to find out
Just what pain is all about.

‘Cause if there’s …

by Marti Fischer

Most of us spend a good part of our lives trying to avoid pain.

We plan carefully. We work hard. We try to make the right choices and surround ourselves with the right people. Somewhere along the way we begin to believe that if we do enough things right, we might be able to sidestep the deeper wounds that seem to shape so many other lives.

For a long time I believed that being brought very low by my humanity was something that should not happen to a person of faith. I assumed it meant something had gone wrong with my belief.

As long as I held onto that assumption, part of my heart remained constrained. I stayed tied to things I wished had never happened. I replayed losses I could not change and carried them like quiet weights inside my soul.

I could see those weights would slowly isolate me.

Brooding over life’s disasters turns us inward. Feelings of inadequacy whisper that it is safer not to risk loving people too deeply again. They tempt us to withdraw and protect ourselves rather than step back into the vulnerability that love requires. When that happens, part of the heart closes.

At different points in my life I have been brought low enough to realize that even as a believer in Christ, I am not separate from the rest of humanity. Whatever strength I thought I possessed could not shield me from disappointment, loss, or the limits of my own humanity.

At first that realization felt like failure. Even humiliation. But over time I began to see something else in it. Being brought low has a way of opening the heart.

When you suffer deeply, you begin to notice the burdens others carry. The pain behind a guarded smile. The quiet exhaustion of someone still trying to stand after being knocked down more times than they can count. Once you have walked through devastating pain yourself, you recognize it in others almost immediately. And when that happens, something inside you shifts.

Instead of standing at a distance, you move closer. Instead of judging, you begin to understand. Instead of trying to fix everything, you simply stand beside someone and say, “I see you. I’m here.”

That kind of empathy is not learned in comfort and ease. It grows out of wounds we never wanted. In many ways, that is what the song “We All Get Hurt” captures so honestly. The opening lines say what most of us eventually discover:

We all get hurt.

We always seem to end up face down in the dirt.

There is something disarming about that honesty. Life knocks us down. Relationships break. Dreams collapse. Plans unravel. And sooner or later we find ourselves staring at circumstances we never imagined.

Pain is one of the few experiences every human being shares. Yet our instinct is almost always the same. We either try to escape it or hide inside it.

We close our minds to the meaning hidden in the madness of our lives. We withdraw from the questions pain raises because we are afraid of what we might discover. Sometimes we even settle into the hurt itself, allowing it to quietly shape how we see ourselves and others. But pain was never meant to imprison us.

Besides, accepting my pain and grief has not been proof that I failed. It has simply been proof that I am human. In fact, acknowledging that weakness has opened the door to something deeper. When we stop trying to appear strong, grace has room to work.

The wounds we once tried to hide begin to grow compassion. Loss teaches humility. Pain reshapes us into people who see others more clearly and love them more deeply. Even the experiences we once wished had never happened begin to serve a different purpose.

Instead of turning inward, the life of Christ within us begins to turn us outward. We become more patient with people, more sensitive to others’ struggles, more willing to listen before speaking. Pain can shrink the soul, but it can also deepen it.

If we resist it, pain traps us in resentment and fear. But if we allow God to meet us in that weakness, our wounds become places where compassion and understanding grow.

That is the quiet promise behind “We All Get Hurt.” Hurt is not the end of the story. It is the doorway to maturity.

And that is why the song fits so naturally within the vision of the “New Covenant” musical. The old way of thinking tells us to hide our weakness, prove our strength, and earn our worth through effort. The new covenant tells a different story. Life does not flow from our strength but from Christ living within us and He can be seen more in our weaknesses than in our strengths. The cracks in our lives are not disqualifications. They are openings where grace enters, light shines, and love begins to flow outward to others.

In the end, the hurt we tried so hard to avoid becomes the very place where new life begins.

Click here for a YouTube version of “We All Get Hurt”.