defining the problem of suffering

First, I divide a question in two and define a key word representing the problem. Then I proceed intellectually to the emotional. Many people do the opposite. They don't divide anything and they begin emotionally. Tackling the problem of suffering I did the same, and so I am extending now my fourth effort to untangle myself.


Without emotion there is no energy to suggest any change, which is why I think of it as Energymotion.  But if you just jump into your subject and go, where are you going? I call those affairs just rants. I start with intellectually and power my intellect with emotion. Next I divide my problem in two. My subject, my problem, was why I was uncomfortable with the idea of picking up my cross and following Jesus. Why should we suffer when Jesus suffered for us? Looked like all they were doing was doing what Jesus had already done as if they were Jesus themselves.

Figuring out how I was wrong is a real can of worms. But Jesus' own words several times telling us to pick up our cross and follow Him, put a real hole in my position after I stopped to recall Him saying that. I was wrong somewhere. I started with the emotional rather than the intellectual. So went back to my proven methods. Suffering for Jesus seemed contradictory requiring another word to define, worship.

So I defined suffering but that definition led my to defining worship which cause me to stumble. So I am beginning again with my fourth try. The cross is the symbol of suffering and suffering onto death. If one lives long enough suffering often enters the picture, and eventually we die. It is not a pretty picture stumbling down the road until I found I was once a man but twice a child.

So I've already defined suffering to some extent and next I will define worship and put them together to define suffering the next time,