The Problem of Pain/Sheryl Sandberg
The assigned articles give first-hand testimony of the pain and suffering that humans have to endure. The testimonials described help broaden our understanding of true suffering and
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The Problem of Pain/Sheryl Sandberg
The assigned articles give first-hand testimony of the pain and suffering that humans have to endure. The testimonials described help broaden our understanding of true suffering and pain. Each article, in its own way, attests to the complex experience that is suffering. In the article, “A Pope’s Answer to the Problem of Pain”, Christopher Kaczor describes suffering as an inescapable part of life. Kaczor goes on to share the conclusions of those who have suffered and chose to find purpose in it. In the article about Sheryl Sandberg, Jessica Durando shares Sandberg’s personal beliefs about suffering. Durando and Kaczor both give us accounts of people’s journey through extensive suffering and all come to the same conclusion. If the individual doesn’t find purpose in their suffering the individual with continue to suffer without meaning.
Christopher Kaczor describes the closeness Pope John Paul II shares with suffering. Pope John Paul II had witnessed death, endured physical pain, and survived assignation attempts and even illness. Even after experiencing so much pain and hardship, Pope John Paul II was said to radiate joy. Pope John Paul II says that we will experience suffering from birth until death much like love. He says that Christ calls for us to understand the meaning of suffering the same way we seek to understand the meaning of love since we cannot escape either. Kaczor (2007) quotes Pope John Paul II saying, “Christ causes us to enter into the mystery and to discover the “why”
of suffering, as far as we are capable of g.asping the sublimity of divine love.”
Just like in Kaczor’s article, Jessica Durando recounts Sheryl Sandberg’s personal
account of suffering. Sandberg had unexpectedly lost her husband in a freak accident. Sandberg
describes the pain and sorrows her suffering brought her. Sandberg says that her grief began to
ease as she sought to find meaning in her suffering. Sandberg says the meaning
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