We must live through the mystery of suffering not like Job who became so profoundly pessimistic that life seemed to him as an hereditary disease, divided into the horrible and the miserable. For such pessimists, things are always going to get a lot worse before they get worse. But we must live through the mystery of suffering like St. Paul who voluntarily made himself a slave for a deeper hope and a higher motive, namely, “for the sake of the Gospel in the hope of having a share in its blessings”(1 Cor. 9:23)