Forget the pain?

I attended another funeral today. One of the scriptures read was from John 16:

When a woman is in labour, she has pain, because her hour has come. But when her child is born, she no longer remembers the anguish because of the joy of having brought a human being into the world. John 16:21

I hesitate to disagree with John, but what does he know? After childbirth, when you hold your newborn baby, there is great joy, and love and life transforming feelings. You do not, however forget the pain. You remember the pain, but you decide that the child is worth the pain.

I think that way of thinking about it is more loving. It describes a sacrificial love, not one of convenient memory lapse.

Do we forget suffering and grief? Or do we, at some point, see God at work through it all? God's grace doesn't make the pain disappear, or make us forget it, but his grace does surround us with reassurance and comfort.

I think that's different than forgetting the anguish.