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Podcast: Become Good Soil
Episode: 122: But It’s Worth It (Part 2)
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The difference is not in what people suffer, but in the way they suffer. In the same fire, gold glows and straw smokes.
– St. Augustine
Suffering is brutal.
Suffering is lonely.
And suffering is a sacred space of masculine initiation.
As we mature, we are made ready to walk through suffering redemptively, allowing it to transform us rather than destroy us. In The Problem of Pain, C. S. Lewis wrote, “We can ignore even pleasure. But pain insists upon being attended to. God whispers to us in ou...