Suffering and conversion - a most fruitful area for meditation. Many years ago, D was a young student deeply in love: she was due to marry her beloved in the month of April, but he dropped dead weeks before the intended date. Cruel irony - the day he died was actually Valentines Day. In her desolation she abandoned her course and turned to nursing instead. So her own suffering inspired her to alleviate the sufferings of others. (Others might simply have become embittered.) Then, two years later, she was received into the Church. She subsequently (without great enthusiasm) married a persistent admirer and had a large family. After years of domestic abuse, her marriage finally broke down, and in that year she became a Secular Carmelite. Some people are drawn closer to the Lord through suffering, others turn away from Him in fury. Suffering is like a litmus test - it shows up what we are really made of.
Posted on: Thu, 17 Jul 2014 08:35:52 +0000
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