Perhaps we suffer so inordinately because God loves us so inordinately and is taming us.
Perhaps the reason why we are sharing in a suffering we do not understand is because we are the objects of a love we do not understand.
Perhaps we are becoming more real by sharing in the sufferings that are the sufferings of God, both on earth, as part of Christ's work of salvation, and in heaven, as part of the eternal life of the Trinity which is the ecstatic death to self that is the essence of both suffering and joy. (78)
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