Connie Rodgers April 3, 2023 Weekly Pause & Ponder Weekly Pause and Ponder Connie Rodgers April 3, 2023 Weekly Pause & Ponder There is a straight line between love and suffering. If we love greatly, it is fairly certain we will soon suffer, because we have somehow given up control to another. That is my simple definition of suffering: Whenever we are not in control. Richard Rohr.