WCP William Hollis Pain, Purpose and Paradise

WDM P. 73 ”After Difficulty..Insights of W. Deen Mohammed On Pain And Suffering”

“G_d created us for struggle. Some of us think we’re going to have everything on a bed of roses.  No, if somebody doesn’t take those roses and cut off their stems, a bed of roses can be awfully painful, because they have sharp thorns.  That’s a lesson to us too. Here is a beautiful, delicate, tender rose, but look at how it had to rise above the thorns.  It is not under the thorns but above the thorns.  It had to grow and survive the passage of the thorns to crown itself saying, “I have become victorious.  I am victorious over hard heartedness, cruelty and defiance.”  You see the rose invites the lover while the thorns defy the lover saying, “Get back! Stay back!”  However, the rose has ascended above that and it crowns itself saying “I’m better than you. I’m higher than you.  I deserve to be above you.  I am beauty and I invite the lover.”  SO, LIFE IS A CHALLENGE AND WE HAVE TO FACE THE CHALLENGE.