Byproduct of Grief

 Anyone who has suffered grief understands the twisting inner pain that keeps one awake at night.  However, a beautiful byproduct of this horrific pain can be kindness.  In acute suffering, the griever often has no desire to inflict emotional pain upon another human being.

" And so I learned about grief, and about the absence and emptiness that for a long time make grief unforgettable. We went on, the three of us remaining, as we had to do…

A sort of heartbreaking kindness grew.....  grew among us all. It was a kindness of doing whatever we could think of that might help or comfort one another. But it was a kindness too of forbearance, of not speaking, of not reminding...  That kindness kept us alive, I think, but it was a hardship too.”  (Wendell Berry, as quoted in Hannah Coulter)

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He is despised and rejected of men; a man of sorrows, and acquainted with grief... [Isaiah 53:3a]