Well Said: Bandaging the wounds of the world.

In observing the poor, I too have learned to say, in poverty: My God I am glad about all the trials I have experienced, and I thank you in advance for all the ones yet to come. I hope they will help to bandage the wounds of the world.

Cardinal Robert Sarah, God or Nothing

I am not yet advanced enough to be able to thank God in advance for the trials to come in my life. I am always hoping to dodge the Cross.

However, that idea of trials helping to bandage the wounds of the world is one that helps me reconcile myself to those advance trials. Almost (not quite) to be able to embrace the idea. Baby steps, baby steps.