None of us can escape suffering. We will always encounter some form of suffering or other, and some of us have a lower threshold for suffering than others. Whatever the case, we can trust that God will not burden us with anything that is too heavy, and that in every suffering we go through there is a learning point that we can take away.
If we put God in the midst of that experience and allow him to speak to our hearts and minds and guide us, we can surely expect something good to come out of it. This is difficult to accept when we are in pain, but we can decide how we want to handle our sufferings. We can adopt a bitter “I don’t deserve this” attitude and let our sufferings defeat us or we can invite our Lord to journey with us and shine a light on our path so we will come out of the situation stronger.
So today, look at one area of your life where you sense a degree of suffering. Spend some time to pray about it and lift it up to the Lord, asking for his grace to help you through it.