Lessons I've Learned: Part 7
I wrote a post last week about suffering being a gift and about choosing to fall on God's grace so that God may bring that gift to fulness as He desires it to be for us. I want to better spell a few things out in regards to this than I did last week. Suffering is a gift in a few ways. For us personally, it is a gift in that it gives us reason to come to God, asking for His help and His Grace. It is too easy, when everything is going well, to set prayer aside and to let our relationship with God remain or become stagnant. Suffering can either be a reminder that we do indeed need God, or, for some, it can be a first step in a journey toward faith. Suffering is a vehicle by which God draws us, His beloved, to Himself. Suffering is also a mode by which, after we ask for His help, God sends graces down upon us. Through suffering, He prepares our hearts, if we allow Him, to receive His graces: His love, peace, and joy and all that He desires to give us. It is through suffering that w...
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Thank you,
Lena
I really have no idea where I got my Rosary diagram. It may be from our CCD program or from a friend of mine. It's been sitting around our house for quite a while, waiting for the boys to be old enough to learn about how to say the Rosary. It looks like it's from some kind of book, since it has page numbers on the bottom corners. Sorry I can't help more.
Kim