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“A child can embrace the simplest board-book basics of the Gospel and offer stick-figure prayers, but living the Christian life is an art we spend our entire lives learning. And suffering is one of our teachers.” (Ramsey 93-94)

This is really good

“… because it is far too easy to perceive our suffering as a kind of failure in life rather than as a means of grace— an obstacle to get over and around as quickly as possible rather than as an occasion for the broken beauty of Christ to be slowly but surely formed in us “ pg 18