Sunday, May 30, 2004

suffering

‘All things good and beautiful…’

I have yet to find someone who loves suffering. Someone who can say that suffering is well and good, an accepted and desired landscape of life. Someone who has embraced suffering to be able to find so much beauty, purpose, and meaning in it.

To be able to say...

‘Life is hard… really hard!’
Life is hard… because I suffered!
Life is beautiful… despite the suffering!
Life is beautiful… in the midst of suffering!
Life is beautiful… because I have suffered much!

'No snail crosses a garden path without leaving a trail to mark its passing; a testament made silver by the light of the sun.'
~ Mike Riddell