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Suffering is a Gift

@JonahofNinevah, Oct 2020 Suffering is a gift. Bear with me as I attempt to explain. My first memories (literally) are of a profound tragedy in my family. A shocking & painful death. They are of pain, and of people comforting each other in pain. Then, when I became a teen, it happened again. Empathy was my first skill. It was a survival mechanism. Instinctive. So…

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Born For A Time Like This

Being hated by everyone for refusing to believe and submit to lies wouldn't suck that much if it didn't include one's own family. It sucks. It's hard. It hurts. And yet many of you simply can't imagine being any other way. Think about why that is, and embrace the suck. Pride is an ugly, ugly sin. If you're like me, you absolutely hate it, e…

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Suffering - Take Up The Cross

From St. Louis de Montfort: Let him take up his cross, the one that is his. Let this man or this woman, rarely found and worth more than the entire world, take up with joy, fervently clasp in his arms and bravely set upon his shoulders this cross that is his own and not that of another; his own cross, the one that My wisdom designed for him in every detail of number,…