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 Living our principle and foundation begins when we focus on the Heart of Jesus and hear him say to us:" Behold this Heart which loves so much yet is so little loved. Is there anyone who will console me?" Our automatic response is ," I will console you, Jesus." Right , so we tell Jesus we want to console him, and then he says to us," Then that means you will perform acts of reparation."

For many of us, the word " reparation" is like a big, red stop sign that puts an end to our drawing close to the Lord's Heart. Some of us would say,"Lord, I do want to help you and be your friend and all, but reparation sounds like there's a lot of suffering and sacrifices involved and, remember I am one of the little ones." Thus, we come to the obstacle to living our principle and foundation: fear of suffering. 

To get past this obstacle, we need to know , Jesus knows that we are little. He knows we easily get scared. Now , if we are willing, he would like to begin teaching us to trust him. We should start the lesson in the Lord's " school of trust.".

Let us renew our decision to be his friends. There is no reason to be afraid. Reflect on Jesus's question to us: haven't I shown you how gentle I am with you? 

When we have not fled from the Lord's love, when we have given him a chance to show it, haven't we always found his embrace to be gentle?

" Take my yoke upon you, and learn from me,for I am gentle and humble of heart, and you will find rest for your souls. For my yoke is easy, and my burden is light."

Fear of suffering tends to come up a lot for those strive to console Jesus.

Obstacle that prevent us from going to the Lord, namely, our weakness, sinfulness and attachments.

People often think they can escape suffering. They cannot instead. Suffering finds us all, no matter how much we strive to avoid it.

The best way to deal with suffering is to accept it , unite it to Christ in his suffering, and begin to find its hidden treasure.

By accepting suffering, I don't mean we should be completely passive such that we do not act to avoid the suffering such as illness, poverty , and the like.

There are two different Christian approaches to suffering. The first approach tends to be very active. It involves actively choosing lots of penances, mortifications, and sacrifices. Such an approach has helped produce a number of saint. They use the suffering to save souls in Purgatory and help relieve their pains ,and to save dying souls from hell.The saints use these sufferings as a means to gain merits.

A more passive approach to suffering is " letting Jesus do it". Jesus chooses for us the suffering that he nows will form us into saints( for he knows best) and we simply accept what he sends. You need not to worry the cross He sends you. Jesus knows what we can take and what we need. 

The main thing Jesus wants from us is not that we suffer but simply that he be with us in his suffering. This is what Jesus wants to tell us:" All I want is for you to be my friend, All I want is for you not to be afraid of me and to come to me." When we simply follow the Lord, it is enough. The Lord does not necessarily want from us great suffering but great love. Do we see the tremendous value there is to simply being with the Lord?

Amazingly , even our littlest sufferings take on great value when we UNITE THEM TO JESUS'S PASSION. 

Sometimes we may not be as bold in our prayers as we could be simply because we know that souls are bought only at the price of suffering.On our own we can merit nothing. If, however, with confident love, we unite our own little sufferings to Jesus 's passion, they take on infinite merit. Let's boldly ask for conversions, graces, and all that is truly good, knowing that such prayer brings great delight to the Lord.

We should have confidence in God that the sufferings sent by God must not go beyond our ability and strength. We should first trust in God like what St. Faustina taught us," Divine mercy of Jesus I trust in you."