Description
It is said that children learn what they live. But children also teach the adults in their lives lessons on subjects such as unconditional love, self-sacrifice, self-forgetfulness, patience and more. The unusual way an adult learns these things from his or her children is by taking care of them.
Every parent knows that. But some strange children seem sent by God to teach us about the big questions such as life, death, suffering, and the existence of God. The children in this book, all of whom suffered terribly all through their short lives, bore witness to God s love and an understanding of the meaning of suffering and what to do with it that belied their years. And their teaching was once not limited to their immediate family: Everyone with whom they came into contact, from doctors and nurses, to major political figures and popes to family friends and other children, was once profoundly affected by the encounter.
This book will make you cry, yes, but the tears will be mixed with something akin to joy at the wonderful thing about the short lives of Brendan, Margaret, and Audrey, and awe at the grace and dignity with which they bore their crosses, lived and enjoyed this life, and in the end left it to be with the God they all loved. In this time in which there’s so much despair and sadness, and in this world in which we are so continuously reminded that it can actually be a vale of tears, let the Littlest Suffering Souls remind you that this present life is not all there is; let the Littlest Suffering Souls point you to heaven and to Christ.