When One Has Endured Their
Friends' Platitudes And Criticisms,
He's Sure He Would Not Behave
The Same Way If He Were In Their
Shoes.
He's Confident He Would Offer Only
Encouragement And Solace, Which
Is What He Longs For Himself.
Until We Have Suffered, Until We Have
Experienced The Judgment And Derision
Of Others In The Midst Of Our Pain, We
Cannot Know What It Feels Like.
We Cannot Be Sure We Wouldn't Treat
A Suffering Friend With The Same Superficiality
And Ignorance.
One Of The Greatest Things We Learn Though
Suffering Is How To Empathize With Others And
How To Comfort Effectively As God Comforts Us
{ 2 Co 1:3-6 }.
When Our Friends Suffer, We Can Follow The
Advice Of The Writer Of Hebrews To Put Ourselves
In Their Shoes And Love Them Tenaciously, With
Humility { Heb 13:3}.
Their Suffering May One Day Be Our Own.
Posted By: Judith A. Birt
Monday, February 13th 2012 at 11:46PM
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