“BE STILL AND KNOW THAT I AM GOD.” [PSALM 46:10]

God calls us to sit quietly and the Lord our God will be with us.

Today, we take a few minutes to think about and reflect upon the problem of suffering, and as we do let us take a few minutes to read St. Francis de Sales thought about one who loves God fully and totally.  “A truly loving heart loves God’s good pleasure, not only in consolations but also in afflictions, trials and crosses.  In fact, in such cases it even loves more.  Love just does this, it makes the lover ready to suffer for the beloved."

   

Love of God can enable us to offer up our suffering and allow for the why of suffering to be God’s purview alone.  Trusting that God will share the reason when it is the right moment.

"Let us thank God for having called us to His holy faith. It is a great gift, and the number of those who thank God for it is small." 

[St. Alphonsus Liguori]

May God Be Praised!