12 2 / 2011

The road less traveled

Excerpt from Good News About Sex & Marriage by Christopher West

Borrowing words from my own archbishop, Charles Chaput: “Suffering can bend and break us. But it can also break us open to become the persons God intended us to be. It depends on what we do with the pain. If we offer it back to God, he will use it to do great things in us and through us, because suffering is fertile.”