I was listening to Fr. Mawdsley commenting on his book "Crucifixion to Creation", and he said something that was piously humorous, I hope it brings others joy.
We're born with a particular network of people at a particular time and place where we have to show the glory and triumph of self-sacrifice, of the cross in our circuмstances and that way, God can show that through every culture in every time, He is able to elevate man from the dirt into the fruit, and all the time the devil is trying to heap dung on us, actually it is just fertilizer. All the troubles of life they're just going to make the plant grow more sweet.