HARD LUCK LIFE

In one way or another, even the "lucky ones" seem to suffer. Be it ill health, disappointments or even the normal process of aging and dieing serves us with constant reminders that life on this Earth is not the final goal of our existence.
St Paul repeatedly asked to be healed of his skin disease, but the Lord declined him. It probably kept him on the course. Without it who knows what would have become of Paul. When Fr Pio was once asked why he couldn’t secure healing for his nephew, he said that was because health would have endangered his eternal soul; he would have enjoyed life too much.
In one way or another, even the seemingly most successful people suffer. Those who do not, God’s providence have abandoned already, these are the incorrigible ones, whose names are not written in the Book of Life.
