Suffering is inevitable and unavoidable. We must do what we can to prepare. This means that we need to prepare our minds. See suffering for what it can accomplish in our livesâ€"he who has suffered has ceased from sin. We need to prepare our souls by getting serious about prayer and taking a long hard look at our spiritual lives. And we need to prepare our hearts by serving one another in love. You could say it this way: we need to stop judging others and start judging ourselves, and we need to stop serving ourselves, and start serving others.