Absolutely. I once heard the story about a person who complained so much about the cross he was given to carry that Our Lord took him to a large barn and told him that the barn was filled with other crosses; he was welcome to trade his for something else.

The person gleefully threw his cross aside and raced in only to find crosses of varying sizes and shapes, each imprinted with things like "cancer", "homelessness", "blindness", "abuses of all sorts".

In the end the person came out of the barn and picked up the cross Our Lord had given him.

St. Francis deSales wrote it more eloquently, but the result is the same. Carry your cross with patience, love, and joy.

Thanks for the read. Timely, as usual.