Isn’t it enough to deal with one thing?

Why do we have so many obstacles in life?

Why does it feel like one thing happens after another after another?

Isn’t it enough to deal with one thing?

I did a women’s study through Endow called Salvifici Doloris, On the Christian Meaning of Human Suffering, an apostolic letter written by St. John Paul II in 1984.

I started this only a few months after Derek died. It was hard to do but I still remember learning a lot from it.

The main topic was redemptive suffering. I never knew what that meant fully before this study.

It’s the Catholic belief that human suffering, when accepted and offered up in union with the Passion of Jesus, can remit the just punishment for one’s sins or for the sins of another, or for the other physical or spiritual needs of oneself or another.

It was this topic that made me realize that there is meaning behind suffering. And that suffering needs to be accepted in order to help myself or others. Sin is ugly. I sin every single day. Maybe this suffering is mean to help me, a sinner. Maybe it’s meant to help others who sin. I wish there was a cut and dry reason behind it, but as with all things God-related, it’s a mystery that my faith will help me navigate through it.