"How we deal with our pain can decide whether we are diminished by it or transformed by it. From a Christian perspective, a positive response involves allowing pain to reshape our will by daily directing our intentionality more lovingly and trustingly toward God. This does not make sense to our reason.
But as the central symbol of our faith, the brutally painful cross of Christ tells us that pain may be one important element in our spiritual formation. This is a great mystery, and it is a mystery in which we are called to participate with all our heart."
-Don Simpson
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