Intense suffering comes particularly to parents. Love for their children causes it. The more one loves, the more one suffers.
It is important to realize that children ultimately come from God and are gifts from God. Parents co-create the bodies, but God creates the soul. Therefore, parents are to act as guardians, not masters.
In this context parents are challenged to ultimately surrender their children back into the Father's hands. It takes a tremendous amount of faith but on the other hand to do so is beautifully simplistic. Where better a place to be then in the loving embrace of God?
The Holy Father recently commented as such:
That parents “seriously concern” themselves with their children’s education,
that they realise that every child is “an incomparable gift from God”, and that
they are neither “friends nor masters” of their children’s lives but “guardians”
of this gift.
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