When dealing with our own personal suffering it is important to reach out to this goodness which brings healing (through God and the help of others). The Holy Father recently commented on this:
Sometimes, it is hard to see that goodness exists in this world and that it will
win "since evil causes more noise than goodness. A brutal murder, widespread
violence or major injustices will make the news. Acts of love and service or the
daily chores done with faithfulness and patience will be overshadowed, from the
limelight. For this reason, we should not stop at the news if we want to
understand the world and life. We must be able to wait in silence and meditation
as well as calm and lasting reflection. We must be able to stop to think. This
way, our minds can be healed from the injuries of daily life and go deeper into
the facts of our life and the world to reach the wisdom that allows as the
evaluate matters with fresh eyes. When we collect our conscience, in which God
speaks to us, we learn how to look truthfully to our actions and the evil that
is in and around us and start a journey of conversion to make us wiser and
better, capable of solidarity and communion, to defeat evil with goodness.
Christians are men and women of hope, also and especially against the darkness
that often exists in the world, which does not depend on God's plans but on
mankind's wrong choices for they know that the strength of faith can move
mountains."
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