Contemplative in the Mud

Change Sadness into Joy: That’s Enough

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Benjamin Embley

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VanI had for consolation only the thorns of suffering, and I had to make an effort to tell myself: I love suffering, insofar as it becomes suffering with joy… Keep at following your vocation, accept with joy all the humiliations and sadnesses that come; offer to the Beloved of your heart all the tears that fall during these difficult hours.

That’s enough.
Little Brother Marcel Văn CSsR (1928–1959)

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Benjamin Embley

With backgrounds in engineering (BSc PhD) and philosophy (MA), Ben has lived and worked in England, France, and Thailand and is now back home as a settler in the unceded traditional territory of the Wabanaki peoples in Canada. He is a Laudato Si’ Animator and currently studying an MTS Peace & Justice in Reconciliation with Indigenous Peoples.

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