Since He never forgets us, and knows about our pain, what is He doing about it? More to the point, what has He done with it? Our Suffering Has Meaning in ChristĪs Christians living in the twenty-first century, it is difficult for us to imagine life without a Savior. Can a mother forget her infant, be without tenderness for the child of her womb? Even should she forget, I will never forget you. If even a small bird-one of the millions of sparrows in existence-does not fall to the ground without His knowledge (Matthew 10:29), how much more is He acquainted with our personal anguish? He knew our names in advance, He understood us better than we would ever understand ourselves, He knew each and every intricacy of our character, and He knew what we would experience in our earthly lives. Their words remind us that we were called into existence by God Himself. “Before birth the Lord called me, from my mother’s womb he gave me my name,” said the prophet Isaiah (49:1).
“Before I formed you in the womb I knew you,” said the Lord to the prophet Jeremiah (1:5). “There is not, never has been, and never will be a single human being for whom Christ did not suffer.” The Council of Quiercy, quoted by the Catechism of the Catholic Church
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