Metaphor
The Weight of Ice
Dan McCartney, Why Does It Have to Hurt?
In an ice storm, trees become coated with layer upon layer of ice until branches that would have survived a sudden wind finally snap under the quiet, accumulating weight. Some suffering works the same way—not one dramatic crisis, but the slow build of many smaller loads until something gives. Endurance includes recognizing when the weight is mounting.
How you’d preach it
Accumulated small pressures can bring down what a single blow would not.
- Suffering
Mccartney