Episode 345: Suffering is Optional

Why I feel suffering is optional - not compulsory. Often therapy speak misses this cue for me!

Books I quote:
Dr Martin Luther King Jr.

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/13532185-a-gift-of-love

https://kinginstitute.stanford.edu/king-papers/documents/transformed-nonconformist

It's Daniel chapter 3 verse 6

https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Daniel%203%2CDaniel%206&version=NIV

A Redbird Christmas 
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/199532.A_Redbird_Christmas?ref=nav_sb_ss_4_11

Daisy Fay and the Miracle Man 
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/199531.Daisy_Fay_and_the_Miracle_Man?from_search=true&from_srp=true&qid=7elOm2FqdF&rank=11