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I believe that the most important thing is to realise that pain
and sickness are a mystery.
Not so much because it's so difficult to explain
but because it is so profound, where
people can even draw good things out of pain.
There are some people to whom pain helps to see their lives
from a different angle. Just recently Abidal –a football player in Barcelona-
said in an interview that
after his fight with cancer
he had learned to value his family a great deal more
than all things he owned.
In fact, he sold all his cars
so as to help hospitals, children and research on diseases.
So, starting from the idea that
the topic of pain is and will always remain a mystery,
I believe its existence is something that over time
liberates us from our whims,
makes us more humble and therefore more able
to love, which is the key to happiness.
On the other hand I think the existence of pain
is something that, in a natural way, calls us to
the longing of an eternal life which
firstly, will settle this world's lack of justice;
and secondly it will help us to see
that all the wrong we suffered
is so very little compared to
what we will have then.
We can elaborate all sorts of different theories
about suffering, pain...
but if we look at Christ...
there are so many ways he could have picked
so as to save us. And he chose to die.
He chose pain, death.
It's funny because in fact
God became man so he could save us
and became man with all that it implies.
We realize that being a man
implies suffering and pain,
since pain is a result of sin.
A result of human freedom, of evil.
God doesn't sin.
Only making our pain one
with that of Christ, with his death on the cross
can we make sense out of it. We are
helping him to finish his task
of salvation.