Praise be to the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of compassion and the God of all comfort, 4 who comforts us in all our troubles, so that we can comfort those in any trouble with the comfort we ourselves receive from God.
II Corinthians 1:3-4
You may feel alone in your pain, you’re not, there is someone who loves you, who hurts when they see you hurting.
There are cause and effect aspects that take place here. For example, I spent more than eight years carrying the hurt of my past, and not letting go of that hurt has caused me to isolate myself from family members and friends. They didn’t understand what I was really going through because I never expressed it, until recently. I wrote a very long text message to a friend among other things, I apologized for my absence in her and her family’s life. I was surprised to learn that she didn’t realize I was hurting, she thought I had just “moved on”, which was hurtful to her.
