PURPOSEFUL SUFFERING Print E-mail

“God had one Son on earth without sin, but never one without suffering” said St. Augustine . We live in a world that is constantly trying to insulate us from pain and suffering. Nobody loves to suffer, but none of us will be exempted from suffering based on our liking or disliking of suffering. A lot of thought was given to human suffering from many people in the past from several different perspectives. It is definitely very helpful to read about human suffering from different perspective, but I personally believe that none of these scholarly answers will help us much when we are personally going through sufferings.

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INTERRUPTIONS IN LIFE Print E-mail

"Life is a series of interruptions interrupted by interruptions" said an anonymous person. It does not take too long for any one of us to realize that life is full of interruptions; in fact some of you may be considering this e-mail/article as an interruption from what you were doing a few minutes ago. Webster defines interruptions as things that stop or hinder by breaking in. They are often considered as thieves that steal our time and energy from what we should be doing, or plan to be doing.

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