Posted on 07/03/2014 2:00:26 AM PDT by markomalley
“Two things: I think we can all agree that suffering is bad.”
Suffering can be penance for our sins.
Suffering can temper our steel.
Suffering, including the humiliation of illness, can open our minds to new ways of seeing things.
The Earth is a device put here to give us the opportunity to become worthy to spend eternity with God.
Without suffering, the device does not function.
Unless bad things can happen to good people for no apparent reason, the device does not function.
I am convinced that God has an entirely different perspective on suffering, and even death, than do we mortals.
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