Clarification of 'Count Your Suffering'

Perhaps it was the hour. Perhaps it is my poor vocab. Quite a handful of people tell me thay beg to differ. But when they say why I realised I didn't really bring across what I wanted to express. When someone says ' Count your blessings', you probably mean acknowledging and agreeing that all the simple things and all that you take for granted are blessings. You readily list them and thank God for them. So when I said 'Count your sufferings', you do the same thing. You readily list them and thank God for them. How, you may ask. When you believe you have received so much blessings, so abundantly, so overflowing that you can say let me take on the sufferings. But beware! Many does it the wrong way. For example, the simple Catholic practise of the eating meat on Fri. Let me tell you, God will never want you to 'suffer'. Hence whenever you frown and sigh over your seafood and veg on Fri and mutter 'This one is for you, Lord!' Believe me, God wasn't delighted. This is one big bogger trap for the religious. Sometimes we just so blindly want to please Him. We practise this, we do that, we deprive ourselves of this and fast on that. At the end of the day, we are worshipping ourselves, pleasing ourselves, delighting ourselves. 'Suffer' for a cause and not for that 'feel good feeling'. ASk yourselves when you fast today what was gain? Was anything lost? Sometimes the most complex questions have the simplest answers. But are you ready for it? You might not have to swim deepest sea or climb the highest mountain to attain it. You might just have to bend your knees&bow your head and alas it's just there by your feet. So brace yourself for it. The simplest answers...