"I did not come for the healthy, but for those who need a doctor." Jesus "How helpful it is to see sin, like addiction, as a disease, a very destructive disease , instead of merely something that was culpable, punishable, or 'mad God unhappy.' If sin indeed made God unhappy, it was because God desires nothing more than our happiness, and wills the healing of our disease ." Richard Rohr Mortality works. It's designed to be difficult and to teach us lessons we could not otherwise learn. It's designed to provide us experiences that point to, push, and pull us toward growth. And because of that, it is hard. Of course, not all the time. We've been told that we "are" that we "might have joy." So joy is the very purpose of our life, both now and in the eternities. It always had been, and that's why we're here. But some of of us are slow learners, and apparently I ...