You know what it’s like folks. One moment you are happy and smiling and the sun is shining in your life. Then suddenly there’s a dark cloud all over you. Your mood changes, and you’re feeling low.
How could it be? Only a few moments ago you were joyful and seemingly without a care in the world and now you’re in this sombre mood.
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… and then someone said sotto voce, “if God cared so much He would not let her suffer …”
Being a Christian and a God-loving person does not mean we will have a joyful life with nothing ever going wrong. There will be times of great difficulty, as happens to most people, whether they believe in God or not. Being Christian does not make us immune to pain. Physical pain, mental pain, spiritual pain, the pain of loneliness and rejection, the pain of poverty, of prejudice or hatred which so abounds in this world.
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Early morning Mass had just finished. Everyone had gone home or to work, except for Simon the gardener. He stayed behind to collect any stray hymn books left in the pews and to clear up in the Sacristy before he put in an hour or two mowing the lawn in the garden behind the church.
“That was an odd reading we had today from 2 Peter 3:8” he said to Father Ignatius as he locked the Sacristy door.
“You remember the exact chapter and verse I see …” replied the priest, “what was so odd about it?”
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