Topic: The Benefits Of Suffering

Suffering can mature you. Suffering can make you a better person. Suffering can separate out what is important from what is unimportant in your life. Suffering can make you see what is real and what is unreal. Suffering can draw you closer to God each day. However, all these good things growing out of suffering only happen when you take charge of your suffering. The darkness in your life or the darkness of suffering can do good things for you only if you take charge of the suffering and take charge of your life. However, the darkness in your life does not want you to take charge anything. The darkness wants you to give up, to live without hope, to let life unravel before your eyes, and to let the suffering of your life bring chaos and unending discontent. We have enormous difficulty trying to make sense of the darkness. We have difficulty finding meaning in the darkness because the darkness is just that…darkness. In the darkness there is no illumination and no enlightenment. Without illumination and enlightenment, there is no way to become more mature or better. Without illumination or enlightenment, we will not be able to separate the important from the unimportant. Without illumination or enlightenment, we will not be able to differentiate between what is real and what is unreal.

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