Lent: Finding Joy In Gratitude And In Suffering
By REY FLORES Once again, my favorite season of Lent is coming around, bringing us a new hope in the midst of sacrifice. As I grow older and go through life’s trials and tribulations, I have learned to embrace suffering as something good, something edifying. Without suffering, how would we learn true gratitude and how else would we know what true happiness is? A better way to put it is this way: Had Jesus not endured everything from His agony in the garden, His scourging, the via crucis, and ultimately His crucifixion, there would have been no eternal salvation, or the opportunity of it, for any of us. What is true happiness, you ask? From what I continue to learn…Continue Reading