"God is good, and he loves you"
Woes? Setbacks deriving from one thing or another? Can't you see that this is the will of your Father God, who is good and who loves you - loves you personally - more than all the mothers in the world can possibly love their children? (The Forge, 929)
But do not forget that being with Jesus means we shall most certainly come upon his Cross. When we abandon ourselves into God’s hands, he frequently permits us to taste sorrow, loneliness, opposition, slander, defamation, ridicule, coming both from within and from outside. This is because he wants to mould us into his own image and likeness. He even tolerates that we be called lunatics and be taken for fools. …