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When he complains of the pain to his mother, she does not reassure him, does not hug him. She opens her mouth to start speaking, but is cut off when it suddenly starts pouring outside. Frowning at the worsening weather, she gathers her bearings and quotes what is undoubtedly a passage from the Bible, “We rejoice in our sufferings, knowing that suffering produces endurance, and endurance produces character, and character produces hope. Take lesson from that, John. This will only make you a better Christian in the eyes of God.”
And John is afraid suddenly of what it means that he does not rejoice in his pain. That he hates it. Maybe he is weak, in the end.