"I do also know from experience, though, that accepting it, working with it, and learning from it, invariably brings more peace than resisting it tooth and nail."
This has been my experience, too. Resisting suffering seems to make it worse (I'm thinking of one of my labor and deliveries here), but surrender is easier said than done!
This is a thoughtful post you've written. I once met a woman who - though she said she wasn't Catholic - would make the Sign of the Cross over herself.
"I do also know from experience, though, that accepting it, working with it, and learning from it, invariably brings more peace than resisting it tooth and nail."
This has been my experience, too. Resisting suffering seems to make it worse (I'm thinking of one of my labor and deliveries here), but surrender is easier said than done!
This is a thoughtful post you've written. I once met a woman who - though she said she wasn't Catholic - would make the Sign of the Cross over herself.