This morning at breakfast my seven yr. old got very serious and asked this question.
"Why does God make us suffer so?"
Wondering where this is going I asked her to explain herself.
"Well," she says, "I've had this cough for a week now and he hasn't taken it away."
I explained that God sometimes allows us to "suffer" so that we will know how to help others when they are going through the same thing.
She then said she thought, "she has suffered enough and knows how it feels."
Do you ever feel that way?
Have you gotten to the point that you have felt like you have suffered enough?
I have had many moments like that in my life and at the time I was miserable, despaired, even angry. But God was with me through it all and I am so thankful to have experienced hardships so that I may look at others with empathy and an open heart.
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