I hope I will always remember those words, the meaning of those words. "The gift of legitimate suffering" is how the sentence translated itself to my mind because, in fact, everything is a gift to my mind. Legitimate suffering or not, it is a gift if we so choose to believe.
Non-legitimate suffering is ego on parade. As in, ego takes our legitimate suffering, kneads it into the victim's poor, pitiful, put-upon me...unloved, unwanted, unneeded, unappreciated...then finds someone else to take the fall for it...not to mention fix it and/or us.
Non-legitimate suffering, the ego trip, in fact, may be the deeper gift for going there will turn us back to God...bedraggled, humbled but in the end better for it.
If that sounds like it comes from experience, BINGO...it does. Which is precisely why I hope I will always remember the meaning of Beware of running from yourself and your own legitimate suffering, which is the price of being a human being in a limited world.
Thank you.
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