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II B.2 Suffering: A Way to be Rooted in God, Man’s Final End, and Perfection Himself 140
(Diary, # 1329, 1351): It is but fitting for man, that in times of testing or in what befalls
him, including suffering, to “walk by faith” with God (CCC, 164), who is “Absolute Truth,” as
well as man’s “Highest Good” Himself. 141 Sr. Faustina wrote on being “rooted” in God for He is
man’s “first origin and ultimate goal” (Diary, # 1329; CCC, 229). He should take, as well, Jesus
the Son of God (CCC, 429) as his “perfect Model” in life (Diary, # 1351). It is especially true for
the Christian, for through Baptism, he has been “set apart for God” and dignified as His “adopted
son,” as well (CCC, 931, 1997).
She wrote in her Diary, “Jesus, my most perfect Model, with my eyes fixed on You; I
will go through life in Your footsteps, adapting nature to grace, according to Your most holy will
and Your light, which illumines my soul, trusting completely in Your help” (Diary, # 1351).
In her Diary, she also drew attention to man’s true aspiration or purpose in life, “In the
meditation on the goal of ma