In God's love letter to us, in the ancient holy book called the Bible, we see our spiritual ancestor Paul talking about sufferings. We usually want to avoid sufferings and either pretend they don't exist, or try to act like everything is fine. Yet, when we acknowledge our sufferings for what they are, and what sufferings are intended to do for us, it changes our whole perspective on sufferings.
One of our ancient spiritual advisors once said, in a letter he wrote to the people of a local community, "Therefore, since we have been justified by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus...
