Put your troubles to use ... don’t let them put you out of commission

Thinking about suffering lately ...

reading some of Thomas A ‘Kempis’s ruminations on growing through sufferings ...

also, doing a bit of it - just to “keep in practice at suffering” ...

It is inspiring to understand suffering is not destruction it is strengthening.

Such a view responds to Paul’s motto, “when I am weak I am strong … my strength is made perfect in weakness.”

A’ Kempis exhorts me to put my troubles to use, not put them to flight. For if the God who is overall, sends/allows troubles I had better work with the current set He sends … troubles will come, so use them – don’t multiply them. Troubles say; “root yourself in God … don’t suck your thumb and self-commiserate.” One, who is rooted in God, draws strength through those roots and grows in adversity … “am I that one?”