Suffering comes into every life.
Often it is so terrible we wonder how we can ever survive it. We can't imagine the there could be any meaning in it. One of the most important books I've ever read is Viktor Frankl's "Man's Search for Meaning." In it he tells of his experiences as an inmate in several of the Nazi death camps during WWII. Frankl was one of the lucky ones, he survived. He was liberated at the end of the war from Auchwitz as the only survivor of his family. Out of his pain and loss, out of the hell of it all, he came away with a deeper faith in God and, ironically, in humanity. We are the lucky ones, then, who can read this small book and be edified by the powerful meaning he discovered in and through his own suffering.
