redemptive power of suffering

Thank you Lord for, today. Thank you for your sacrifice, for dying for me and for my sins. I praise you and honor you. Please help my unbelief. Holy Spirit, prompt me in times of trial and nudge me in the way of truth. Amen

I have had an easy lent. I don't think that is good. I started of with great ambition as I always do with new things. In the end I became lacks and made excuses. I have a little over one week left until Easter. I really want to look at suffering and sacrifice in a new light. Well a light I "know" but one I pay little attention to. The redemptive power of suffering. I have been hearing the words offer it up for years. I thought I understood it as best I could. I "knew" what it meant I new that I could offer my suffer in union with Christs and it had redemptive power.

What does redemptive power mean? I still don't have all the answers, but this is what I've got so far. I can offer my suffering, things that are hard or that I simply do not enjoy. (like the dishes, or not loosing my temper), to God for a specific intention and it is united with Christ suffering on the cross. There for my suffer in not in vain, it has a reason it has a purpose. My brain is working to fast I need to stop and pray about this and think on it some more. My thoughts are not coming out the way I want.

Anyway, I want to focus on the redemptive power of suffering this week.

I hope to have part 2 by Monday.