Finding God in the midst of suffering

Sad person with their face buried in their hands (Unsplash/Trần Toàn)

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Why does a loving God allow suffering? The nuns wrestle with this eternal question.

"We are confronted with great, great mystery — God that doesn't always make sense to us," Sister Maxine says in this "Ask Sister" clip. "It would be not helpful to not question that in our lives, and I think it is good to question. Good to question what kind of a God we have, what kind of a God we need, what kind of a God we want to help bring about in the world."

As one commenter says, "We've been asking these questions since we were first conscious and probably a little bit before that."

Click here to listen to the full "Ask Sister" podcast where this clip is from.

GSR shares clips from our friends at A Nun's Life Ministry. Check out full episodes of all their podcasts (Ask Sister, In Good Faith, Random Nun Clips and more, like the archived Motherhouse Road Trips) on their website, ANunsLife.org.

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