36th Post: Excerpts from My Prayer Booklet re: Suffering

O how insupportable sorrow

is when suffered far form the cross. 

But how sweet it becomes 

if one suffers close to the cross of Jesus. 

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Know to value suffering as an instrument

of purification and evangelization

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To accept suffering 

does not mean neither to be sorry, 

neither to love suffering

but rather to accept that it therefore humbles one, 

as the earth accepts rain from the heavens

that penetrates to its depths. 

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Sufferings to become the portal

to a union with Christ. 

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....that God will help us comprehend the efficacious power

of accepting our crosses

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...that we accept unsparingly

the adversities 

that are placed before us

as a test  of our faith

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It was impossible to eliminate suffering

but, may we saw 

that it could bring relief and be felt obligated 

to do something

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