> The more you suffer, the more your torment, the greater the joy when you
> find there is no angry God, no punishing God, that your suffering was
> because of love.
> And that due to the suffering you have acquired deeper love, compassion,
> understanding, kindness - and that your heart is more open to more love.
> That it has to be suffering is sad - but it is the very sadness that causes
> the joy.
> Without the depths of sadness - there are no heights of joy.
> And the suffering causes the short term depths in order to know the long
> term heights.
>
> That the only journey is the one journey.
> That the envy for those with money and health and charmed lives and how you
> think they are blessed by God is not the truth - as the poor and disabled
> and crippled and tormented are the ones to grow closer and deeper and more
> in love.
>
> That their torment of "why has God done this to me?" is because God loves
> you.
> And when you find this, this is part of the joy - and the understanding -
> and the closeness that the cause of your suffering is intentional and
> designed and is caused by love not by anger or punishment and as God says.
> Is soon forgotten.
>
> The rapture of fallen Angels to know that there never was anger - that their
> fears that they could never return because of anger were unfounded.
> That all along was the love of God for them - who knew and knows - and who
> cherished each one and wanted to know and love them more.
>
> They may be confused as they think of the suffering.  A very different
> suffering from that of man.
> "But you so often said" God says to them "how much you wished you could sing
> better songs, create more love, how many times did you SAY you wanted so
> much to know me better, to be closer?  That you could not understand my
> compassion?  That do you know a little better now?  That you wanted so much
> to be more than friends?"
> And the Angels look away as they remember their suffering.
> But God is ever patient.
> "Even the animals suffer" he says "I love them too.  If there is no
> suffering then all is trivial.  All is silly giggles and titters.  Without
> suffering there is no love.  Without suffering all are immature.  Suffering
> makes the boy a man.  It changes an Angel to a best friend.  You will
> understand in time."
> The Borg Queen