Life is like a Boxing ring.

One moment you can be walking through life, like there are no problems. You are happy, the sun is out and all is well. Then it comes, that experience you were dreading, it could have been the bad news or the way someone treated you. Sometimes in life you might feel like you are constantly in a battle or a fight with someone, for some of us it could be many people we are battling. Where do you go to win these battles, when life's demands are that you have to face that person again or you have to walk into that same situation again, possibly for a long time. Sometimes the hardest things we have to face in life are the illnesses, or people that just seem to be set in their ways, you know these are the people who are making your life miserable!

There is no room for joking, you tell yourself, as you swallow hard. Realizing that this situation is not going away, you will have to face this problem and these people again. It makes you sad, and you wonder if you still have any strength left, while it seems your tormentors are always going to win. I just came home from mass, and during the mass I was feeling sorry for myself, sorry that I couldn't see past other people's mistakes when they caused me so much pain, but I knew that I wasn't alone. I could look around at my Catholic brothers and sisters, and I felt strengthened and encouraged. I knew I wasn't the only one suffering in that church.

As the Priest said the mass, my spirit was crying out to God to deliver me from my problems (all of them) and my difficulties, and I sensed that if he didn't, I would be ok! I knew that God cared for me during the mass, and if he cared for me as we celebrated the mass, I knew that Jesus would continue caring for me when I got home. I felt that Jesus promised me that he would see me through, even the worst pain was not in vain. I still felt like God did say that he would not remove the situation, He would change it. You see, nothing is permanent in this life, and the people who cause the most pain are the ones who are in the most pain. Pain, is not a bad thing if we feel love, but it can destroy our lives if we don't.

God doesn't ask us to transform our pain, he wants us to endure it so that he can show us through our pain that Jesus Loves us more than those who have harmed us. The Bible teaches that God is the Judge of the living and the dead, so He is that big, that we can turn over any problem that is too big for us. God doesn't require us to solve the mysteries, he just allows us to live in them. This is Mike.

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