Transformed life can only be found through confusion, struggle, literal and metaphorical deaths because we understand only from within the constellation of our present suffering.
Mark Vernon in Third Way, October 2013
Suffering and transformation
{mostly on fiction, poetry, spirituality, biblical studies and theology}
Brief thoughts & quotes … 
I just did my own short story about suffering, ‘Nightmare’. http://www.angeladmeyer.com/2014/03/nightmare-by-jessica-everingham.html