http://www.bibleexplained.com/other-early/Job/job.htm
Had a strong impression on the rendition of the Book of Job by a young instructor (had just received her Ph.D. from one of the top universities in the U.S.) in a Western Literature class my Freshman year in college 34 years ago. Why do people suffer? ["We weren't promised an easy path - just a great destination." - hubby thought about this quote by a famous 20th Century personality.]
This year began with my college teammate's untimely death barely four months after she had been diagnosed with stage IV cervical cancer. A wonderful biology professor with a Ph.D. from MIT, she's just a year younger than me. Then my Father passed away in mid June - also after great suffering, although he'd lived a 'full life' with children and grand children...
My late Mother-in-law has been gone almost 4 years (early January.) She's the most wonderful person in the world, but she had suffered from diabetes for over 20 years and heart disease (triple by-pass) for
14 years. The 2, 3 years before her passing, she suffered from dementia...
The Buddhists also talk about suffering - as a matter of fact, the four stages of the life cycle (suffering) described by the Buddha are: "Birth, Aging, Illness, Death."
Life is indeed not fair. A bunch of us on the Board don't have children - one of the risk factors of getting breast cancer. Did we purposely try not to have children? For those of us who had tried and still weren't able to conceive, did we earn the right to tell all other new 'mothers': "Sorry, but I just can not feel happy for you?"
Reading The Book of Job always gives me great comfort. Not that I truly understand anything in the message, but just knowing that others suffer the same way I do, I don't feel alone...
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