should not try to avoid suffering. They need not seek it, of course; God will send it in God’s own good time! What a person must suffer is the true treasure of his or her life. Christ has sanctified it through his own suffering.57 Thus faith does not mean liberation from suffering and all sorts of difficulties, but the courage to abandon oneself to the God concealed in Christ’s suffering and out of it to understand and accept one’s own suffering as well. It means taking up the cross! The cross of