Romans 5:3-4 

3 Not only this, but we also rejoice in sufferings,

knowing that suffering produces endurance, 

4 and endurance, character, and character, hope.

 

 

Empty

 

Wasted days and wasted nights

have the same conclusion.

The fill of nothingness to the brim

with complete emptiness.

Loneliness will follow

as a cart behind a horse

as the casket moves to a resting place

to join the crowd of hopelessness.

 

Afflictions, which flow from spirits,

called the works of powers of darkness,

are meaningless and fruitless

with no purpose at all.

Except that someone is suffering

and there in no sense in that,

unless the Holy Spirit bears witness

than this proceeds from God’s call.

 

If one believes the lies

that darkness explains

one seems to think if one chooses too

that sufferings come from the Lord.

Triggered by powers of evil

one’s life can be marked

by unreasonable and intellectual sufferings

that one can ill afford.

 

Jan Wienen