Last week, the impoverished mother of a seriously ill child, said to me that God should be careful when he gives sorrow. He should not give so much that the person dies, crushed under the weight. I remember her words and think of suffering. It seems to be pretty much all pervasive. We also seem to have an innate ability of creating it when its not there. Is there an upper limit to how much a human can tolerate? Looking at the history of mankind, I would think not. Humans have gone through horrendous sufferings, natural and man-made like holocausts, pogroms and yet survived to tell the tale. And many have emerged from it, purified, transformed, elevated. The human spirit can endure and transcend whatever is thrown at it. And this gives me hope as I am made of the same spirit.
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