Certainly I would agree. Someone once said he rejoiced in his sufferings (Col 1:24). It is important to me that he didn't say he wasn't suffering.
But the counter-thesis posed against mine was that suffering was the of having the wrong attitude, more or less, something like that. It was against that that I will argue vigorously. A 16 month old infant is terrified at the repeated jabs in the gut of a bout of myoclonic seizures and the parents are aching for her fear and their own? I dare you to tell the three of them it's because they thought life was painful, that their daughter's brain is in peril.
You're right of course.
I suppose I'm reffering more to how the suffering is taken,how it is seen,how it is accepted and how it's dealt with..."more or less, something like that" 8-)