Suffering

“ …accept the fact that there is nothing we can do with suffering except to suffer it.”  Yet another great quote from C.S. Lewis.  When we are suffering through something we constantly want to find something to do with our suffering, to take us away from having to suffer through whatever it is.

I talked about accepting our struggles for what they are earlier, and this has the same idea.  There is nothing we can do about the times when we need to suffer except to suffer through it.  When we strive and push forward things slowly get better and look up.  We see solutions to things that we wouldn’t have seen if we didn’t suck it up and struggle through our suffering.  Sometimes in order to get to where we need to be or want to be we need to suffer through some hardships.  Its a part of life and we need to accept that.  I know its hard to accept that we need to suffer and sometimes it seems and feels undeserved, but there is light at the end of the tunnel.

We always want to escape suffering, get it over with or not even deal with it.  Some people try to hide their suffering with alcohol, drugs, sex, and other addictions.  But that doesn’t help, if anything it tends to make it worse.  We cannot escape suffering and struggling it’s all a part of this journey called life.  Its how we deal with it, how we accept it that matters and makes a difference.  I have decided to face my suffering head on and take things a step at a time because there is nothing we can do about it other than deal with and take it one day at a time.