How ironic that as I opened my devotional to the following excerpt by Mother Teresa on suffering just as I\u2019m contemplating her dark night, and the difference between that kind of suffering and the symptoms of clinical depression.
\nHere is an excerpt entitled “Christ\u2019s Compassion for the Suffering”<\/p>\n
Suffering has to come because if you look at the cross, he has got his head bending down\u2014he wants to kiss you\u2014and he has both hands open wide\u2014he wants to embrace you. He has his heart opened wide to receive you. Then when you feel miserable inside, look at the cross and you will know what is happening. Suffering, pain, sorrow, humiliation, feelings of loneliness, are nothing but the kiss of Jesus, a sign that you have come so close that he can kiss you. Do you understand, brothers, sisters, or whoever you may be? Suffering, pain, humiliation\u2014this is the kiss of Jesus. At times you come so close to Jesus on the cross that he can kiss you. I once told this to a lady who was suffering very much. She answered, “Tell Jesus not to kiss me\u2014to stop kissing me.” That suffering has to come that came in the life of Our Lady, that came in the life of Jesus\u2014it has to come in our life also. Only never put on a long face. Suffering is gift from God. It is between you and Jesus alone inside\u2026. Our total surrender will come today by surrendering even our sins so that we will be poor. “Unless you become a child you cannot come to me.” You are too big, too heavy; you cannot be lifted up. We need humility to acknowledge our sin. The knowledge of our sin helps us to rise. “I will get up and go to my Father.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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