problem of pain

Pain: God’s Megaphone

By Sarah GouldPosted on July 11, 2013Posted in FeaturedTagged knowledge of God, suffering, wisdom, problem of pain, faith, C.S. Lewis, redemptive suffering, grief, Pain, Fr. Frederick Faber, The Blessed Sacrament, Face of God

All manifestations of God, like the Blessed Sacrament, are concealments as well. Everywhere God is veiled; Everywhere he works underground; Everywhere he sets up a screen between himself and the observation of his creature; Everywhere, search is the law of earth and vision the law of heaven; Everywhere in this world, to believe is to[…]

Life is not a fairy tale.

By Carolynne EstisPosted on November 14, 2012Posted in FeaturedTagged fairy tales, problem of pain, poverty, wicked stepmother, hero, reality, Prince Charming, Chesterton, Red Riding Hood, suffering, Cross, Jesus, happily ever after, Carolynne Estis

When a person gets everything that she wants, when she has all the things that she thinks she needs, and life is being wonderfully kind; when there is nothing terrible hanging over her head and no looming catastrophe, she might say something along the lines of “it feels just like a fairy tale.” When her[…]