“Too often we understand our sorrows, our pain, our suffering in terms of guilt. As if he had to pay. The teaching is sometimes the exact opposite… “God tests those He loves” is not a call not to cultivate our guilt but to think our spiritual strength, our ability to rise to the challenge, to nurture our trust in Him. Suffering and pain then do not reveal the guilt of a victim. Rather, they are awakening a responsible consciousness that calls each of us to stand up, to resist and overcome suffering. As a free and humble soul who resists, not as a passive victim who complains.