Tuesday, January 22, 2013

THE WHY AND WHAT TO DO ABOUT SUFFERING (Continuation)


Starting on my other blog ONE A DAY, YOUR SPIRITUAL VITAMINS on Nov 1...a 3 day series on HOW TO LESSEN ANXIETY.

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       Hebrews 10:31  “fall into the hands of the living God.” (check new translation)

(A CONTINUATION FROM LAST TUESDAY)

       I called someone, to give some solace in her time of sickness.  She ended up uplifting me.  She was quite sick and what lay ahead would not be easy and yet she said to me, “I have learned more of God in my sickness than I ever did in my wellness.

 
His name was Cardinal Mercier and shells had destroyed his cathedral and all his precious library had gone up in smoke.  He stood amidst the ruins and said to someone standing by his side, “Suffering accepted and vanquished...will give you a serenity which may well prove the most exquisite fruit of your life.

 
Accept some of the rules of life even if you do not understand.  Stand before the throne of grace and simply say, “Thy will be done” and mean it and “the peace that passeth understanding” comes.  I do not completely understand how or why, but it comes.
 

In 1982 when my left arm hung limp and useless from my shoulder, paralyzed and futile, I was not a happy camper.  Indeed I could have worn myself weary by berating my foolishness in taking up hang gliding.  Instead I prayed, “Lord, make my arm well, or let me learn a lesson from this accident.  But most of all, thy will be done.  He chose to heal my arm.  But even more he did wonderful things for my psyche.
 

“I walked a mile with Pleasure,

She chattered all the way,

But left me none the wiser

For all she had to say.

 

I walked a mile with Sorrow,

And ne’re a word said she;

But, oh, the things I learned from her

When Sorrow walked with me!”

 

We all know pain.  Piercing, dull, steady.  We all know pain.
 

We all face losses, Death, broken relationships, shattered health, ...the list is endless. We grieve for what has happened and some grieve in advance.
 

And trying to make sense of it is one of the most difficult task any of us undertake. 
 

There are solutions, such as our ability to accept permanent change.  Not what we want, but what is.  Not that life will be worse, it may even be better...but that it will be different.  On the whole, we human beings don’t like change, so this is easier said than done.
 

There are solutions, such as whether we say “Woe is me,” or “What can I do to make this terrible time better?” 

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