What Job Teaches About Resilience: The Psychology and Faith of Suffering
Psychologists now understand that suffering is not a single emotion but a multi-dimensional experience. Tyler VanderWeele describes it as involving several intertwined dimensions or characteristics: intensity, duration, uncontrollability, pervasiveness, disruption to purposes, and threats to personhood. Suffering also involves several aspects, including physical, mental, social, and spiritual. When pain reaches only the body, we call it illness; when it reaches every part of our being, we call it suffering. Yet, within this complexity lies the possibility of transformation. The spiritual strengths of hope, faith, and love can turn pain into growth. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6NCkyLdGmO8 Job’s story captures this truth in vivid detail. His losses touched every layer of his humanity. He suffered…
