A Meditation
God never sends suffering. Never. It is never "God's will" that we should suffer. God would like us
not to suffer. But since the world brings suffering, and since God refuses to use His almighty power and treat
us as foolish children, He aligns Himself with us, goes into Auschwitz with us, is devastated by 9/11 with us,
and draws us with Him through it all into fulfillment. This is a high price to pay for our human freedom, but it
is worth it. To be mere automatons for whom God arranges the world to cause us no suffering would mean we never
have a self. We could not make choices.
Sister Wendy Beckett (1930-2018)