Not all sufferings are mysterious. The sufferings of Christ are mysterious. Why did he choose to suffer physically? What intention did he have in it?
Our Father in heaven does not want any evil for any human being. He does not wish anything evil or bad neither for his Son nor for any body else. Does this mean that suffering is not evil? Are all the sufferings evil? Not all the sufferings fall under the category of evil or bad.
The Lord made man and woman free. He gifted them with the gift of freedom. Freedom that can be properly used or misused.
Before the fall (misused of freedom) of Adam and Eve, our first parents, there was no physical suffering on earth. It was after their disobedience that toil, work and suffering appeared. It is since then that the evil human instincts, or lower appetites, that became alive and active in every human being. However, freedom was not taken away from the human kind. From the day of the disobedience on there were and are two opposing principles in each person.
These ideas help me to understand a little about the mystery of suffering.
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