When Suffering Doesn’t Make Sense
If you would have asked me ten years ago what I thought about suffering, I would have had no words for you. That’s not because I had never “suffered.” On the contrary. As my dear friend used to say to me, “You suffered enough in you life, you deserve for it to be without suffering now.” That never quite settled my soul, however, because I knew both that the suffering I experienced . . . and the suffering she was experiencing . . . had nothing to do with “paying our dues” or “earning our stripes.” I knew in my…
