This
blog post is going to take on a more serious note: Why suffering? Why does God permit it? Sometimes we feel unreachable in our deepest
pains, even though family, friends, and professionals try to be there for
us. Our emotions can seem overwhelming
and it seems that the tide of sorrow has washed permanently over us.
Let us
bring our grievances before God and cry out like in the Book of Esther: Help
me, who am alone and have no help but you…
When I read the meditation from my Magnificat subscription, Sister Ruth,
a Carmelite nun, says that “We must trust God enough to know that he would
never leave us in a state of weakness without a purpose.”
As for
me, I cannot give a clear enough answer about suffering. But I do know that Jesus, too, suffered in
His Passion and Death- for love of us. Do
we suffer for love of others? My
suffering tells me to offer it for you, especially you readers who are tempted
by the ways of the world. Let us unite
our sufferings with that of Our Lord’s.
Let us raise our eyes in hope, before a God who provides healing. Let us not despair. Please don’t!
For we are loved, reached out to, by God through the lives of those who
reach out to help and console us.
Let us
suffer with trust in the Sacred Heart
of Jesus, and look on with hope as we seek Him out in the resurrection.
God be Praised!
Suffering is the bitter outside of the sweet fruit, because it usually contains something good and precious within it. We suffer when we lose something good, our health, our well-being, our peace, and the list goes on. But most importantly we suffer when we love, we suffer with our beloved when they go through trials, and we suffer for our beloved when they're taken away.
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