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Hey there, Sprouts.

Today is Tuesday, September 11th, 2018.

This week on the Catholic Sprouts podcast, we have been talking about suffering.

Yes, it's going to be a little bit of a hard week around here.

But yesterday we talked about why God allows bad things to happen. And although we don't have a complete answer for this, we do know one thing that no matter

what happens, God is there with us. Today we are going to talk about what we should do during times of suffering.

Now, we do know a couple of things for sure.

First of all, we know that God is good and God loves us.

Another thing that we can count on is that at some point we will suffer.

Each person's suffering will be different throughout their life, but no person is able to escape

suffering altogether. Some people will experience physical pain with injuries or illness. All of us will go through

the pain of losing someone we love because we know that as human beings one day we will die.

Others of us will experience emotional pain perhaps of loneliness or sadness whatever our suffering

might be we need to know what we should do during those times of suffering and here is what i want to tell you today, Sprouts. When you are suffering,

you should do two things and avoid doing something else. Number one, you should turn to God.

Number two, you should turn to other people. And number three, you should avoid turning in on

yourself. Now, what do I mean by turning in on yourself? Well, oftentimes, while we are suffering,

we like to be alone. We like to be sad and wallow alone. We like to sit in a

quiet room and think about how it is so terrible what is happening to us, how no one has ever

suffered like we have, and how we are the most pathetic person ever. We like to sit and be very, very sad sometimes.

And although we might do this sometimes, we need to realize that this is not how we are going

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