Contemplative in the Mud

A Quick Key to Changing Sadness into Joy with Isaac of Nineveh

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Benjamin Embley

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Saint Isaac of Nineveh gives a quick key to changing sadness into joy. It’s really quite logical:

Hardships for the sake of the good are loved as the good itself.

So if all of our intentions are for God, then all of our hardships, pain, sadness, and suffering are equally for God, loved for God, and in love, transformed. Getting there and letting God have it all is not easy for us. But yet the central mystery is so simple.

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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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    sandyfaithking

    It does make things easier to bear if I know that it somehow glorifies Him, even if I can’t see how.

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