Fulton J. Sheen said, "God’s delays are mysterious; sorrow is sometimes prolonged for the same reason for which it is sent. God may abstain for the moment from healing, not because Love does not love, but because Love never stops loving, and a greater good is to come from the woe. Heaven’s clock is different from ours." [Life of Christ, p.357]
Maybe this story can help us, about 500 years before Christ was born a rabbi was teaching 4 or 5 his students just outside their village. As they looked down on their village, they saw foreign troops invading the village. They heard the screaming, the yelling and saw the fires.
Finally, the rabbi looked up to heaven and screamed, “If only I were God!” One of his students asked him, “What would you do differently if you were God.” The rabbi answered, “I would do nothing differently, but I would understand!”
We don’t understand why there is pain and suffering in the world, but Jesus taught us what to do with our pain and suffering. Offer it up to God the Father and ask Him to bless it and have good come from it.
May God Be Praised.
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