Lord, I Am Suffering

Lord, I am suffering

and am sometimes tempted to rebel

against this pain

which is griping me and invading my soul.  

Lord, I know that you know what it is like and that you understand me.

In the Garden of Agony, did you not,

yourself,  protest  against the pain?

You were frightened, you felt the sadness,

the revulsion, the desperation

and you wanted to push away this suffering.

“Father, it is too hard, if it be possible

may this cup be removed from me.”

You are really like us. All of nature

protests against pain which is an evil.

It came into your life

through  the wickedness of men

but your infinite love used it

for our redemption.

You linked all of human suffering to your Passion

and  you saved us from sin and from death.

It isn’t the suffering which saves

but your Love which accepted it.

“Father, that your will be done and not my own”

              Anonymous (Garches Hospital)