Virtue is Practical...

"Virtue is beautiful, profound, and immensely useful in ordinary everyday life. Virtue is practical." - Matthew Kelly
             This statement is simple, but I find it to be profoundly true. I think the injection of virtue into life is necessary today in society, because suffering exists as a fact of life. I believe that the alleviation of suffering is not a capacity humans have. We have the capacity to comfort, we have the capacity to help others, but we do not have the capacity to prevent suffering, at least not entirely. If we apply virtue to life experiences then suffering becomes bearable, because virtue changes the focus from the sufferer to the Healer, who is the ultimately singular Being who can take suffering away...not in this life, but in eternal happiness. Suffering is viewed today as an evil, and I concur that suffering can be caused by evil and cause evil. But this idea that justice in the world is a world without suffering is flawed because we have been called to imitate the life of Jesus. If Jesus suffered so much as He did, how can we say that we are not also called to endure suffering and bear our crosses. We can't. The servant follows the Master, he is not above Him. Suffering is sad, and the world is rife with it. But we can find joy in suffering with the help of virtue.