Contemplative in the Mud

Prepare for Suffering

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Benjamin Embley

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3TitusPhoto00I know that there are people who consider the message of resignation obsolete, who would much sooner preach resistance and rebellion than resignation, but the truth is that we live in world in which suffering is unavoidable… It is a denial of the true state of affairs if we do not prepare for something which we cannot escape.
Blessed Titus Brandsma (1881–1942)

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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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    So often this wisdom is overlooked. Acceptance of the reality of suffering does not mean we give up hope, and it is certainly not a lack of faith. This is the faith that says that, no matter what, God is good.

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