I'm sick of suffering all the time

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What’s the point in it?

I don’t feel spiritually stronger or anything.

The whole thing feels like a waste: am I supposed to be happy to suffer?

I feel abandoned.
 
How are you suffering? Describe for us please. It will be easier to help you if you are more specific.
 
So am I.
Sorry I’m kind of joking. I don’t know the details of your suffering so don’t really know what to say.
“Suffering is overrated”. How’s that for a fridge magnet? 🙂
 
You may feel abandoned, but you are NOT abandoned.

I am sorry you are suffering.

Call on our Blessed Mother, Comforter of the Afflicted

I will say a prayer for you.
 
Have you considered the idea that the way you feel might not have a spiritual cause? Maybe you have depression and could benefit from medical help?
 
Wasted Pain

Bishop Fulton J. Sheen

There’s nothing more tragic in all of the world than wasted pain. Think of how
much suffering there is in hospitals, among the poor and bereaved. Think
also of how much of that suffering goes to waste. How many of those
lonesome, suffering, abandoned, crucified souls are saying with Our Lord
at the moment of Consecration: "This is my body, take it?"And yet, that
is what we should be saying at that second. "Here is my body, take it!
Consecrate it! Offer it ! Offer it to the Heavenly Father with
yourself, in order that He, looking down on this great Sacrifice, may
see only you, His beloved Son in whom He is well pleased. Transmute the
poor bread of my life into your life; thrill the wine of my wasted life
into your divine Spirit; unite my broken heart with your Heart; change
my cross into a crucifix. Let not my abandonment and my sorrow go to
waste. Gather up the fragments, and as the drop of water is absorbed by
the wine at the Offertory of the Mass, let my life be absorbed in you.
Let my little cross be entwined with your great Cross so that I may
purchase the joys of everlasting happiness in union with you.

Consecrate these trials of my life which would go unrewarded
unless united with you; transubstantiate me so that , like bread
which is now your Body and wine which is now your Blood, I, too,
may be wholly yours. I do not care if the species remain, or that,
like the bread and the wine, I may seem to all earthly eyes the same
as before. My station in life, my routine duties, my work, my family
– all these are but the species of my life which remain unchanged;
but the substance of my life, my soul, my will, my heart,
transubstantiate them, transform them wholly into your service
so that through me all may know how sweet is the love of Christ!
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Personally, over the past 10 years, I have accumulated a nightmare medical history. Yet, I am struggling to accept, embrace, even enjoy suffering for love of God. I have set a lofty goal for myself, but have as my models Saint Teresa of Avila and Saint John of the Cross.

We Catholics possess the great good blessing of knowing the purpose of, and having the perfect outlet for our suffering. The souls in purgatory? Yes. Unconverted sinners? Of course! Pick a cause and consciously offer each bit of suffering, in the manner of Christ on His Cross.

It will not be without eternal effect.
 
po18guy said:
Consecrate these trials of my life which would go unrewarded
unless united with you; transubstantiate me so that , like bread
which is now your Body and wine which is now your Blood, I, too,
may be wholly yours. I do not care if the species remain, or that,
like the bread and the wine, I may seem to all earthly eyes the same
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Hall of Fame CAF post

nice job…
 
I feel like this time to time. But suffering is part of the whole deal. I look at it as carrying a cross of suffering for Jesus. Rather than seeing it as being abandoned, i see it as an opportunity to do my part for Christ.
 
The problem does not lie with suffering; the problem lies with what we do with it.

Have you noticed how people claim that they leave/are ready to leave thigs to God? Yet, time and again they take it upon themselves to do/secure/judge that thing that they claim has been left in God’s hand.

How long is long-suffering?

How do we offer suffering to the Lord?

It is easy to claim to be in Fellowship with God when all things go right… it is not as easy when they do not.

Have you noticed the news in the last few days… a young woman stole a car and ended up killing three of her “friends” who were “joy-riding” with her… a “mother” and a “father” killed their respective children and themselves… otherwise wealthy, intelligent, successful and reasonable people committed suicide leaving everything and everyone in search for answers… the one thing they all had in common (with the millions of others who throw away their lives or take the lives of others) is their lack of Fellowship with Christ.

Christ can be our Rock. But we must humbly submit to Him.

Maran atha!

Angel
 
Happiness must be carefully stalked. Yet, suffering always lies in wait.
 
when will posters here understand?

some of “US” can’t READ single spaced "posting
 
While I was going through a season of intense suffering and disaster after disaster, I read this advice.
Offer thanks.
Jesus offered thanks before he instituted the Eucharist, the night before he suffered (and yes, He knew what was coming next).
Eucharist means “to give thanks”.
So I totally resisted this, because I did NOT feel thankful, there was precious little to be thankful for, and I didn’t want to be insincere to God. But one day I woke up not feeling the crushing sadness I usually felt, so I gave thanks for the consolation. The sadness was back within the hour.
But every time I felt less sad I gave thanks for the consolation.
I’m not going to tell you that “everything changed!!!” from this practice, but it did help me reframe the experience so that I was able to get through each day from a better head space.
And the more I gave thanks the more I found to be thankful about
Peace
 
I know we don’t always agree on stuff, but I think we might be in a similar place. You can PM me if you’d like.
 
jcrichton said:
the one thing they all had in common (with the millions of others who throw away their lives or take the lives of others) is their lack of Fellowship with Christ.
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That is a grossly misinformed statement. Believers commit suicide all the time. We laugh at faith healing when people try to apply it to cancer and broken legs, so why would we act like it’s any more effective in the mental sphere?
 
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…they are lacking in Fellowship with Christ (St. Matthew 7:21-23).

Maran atha!

Angel
 
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