WITH SO MUCH HURTING AROUND US, WHETHER IT’S YOU OR SOMEONE YOU KNOW, I CAN’T HELP BUT THINK OF THIS SONG BY CHARLIE HALL, “DRAW CLOSE”:

“LORD LET ME FEEL IT, THE WAY THAT YOU WOULD FEEL,
BROKEN FOR THE PAIN THAT PEOPLE BEAR.
LORD LET ME TASTE IT, THE TEARS FROM BROKEN REEDS
TEACH ME TO PRAY WITH WEEPING FOR THOSE WITH NEEDS…

DRAW CLOSE TO THE LONELY ONES, TO THE HURTING ONES,
TO THE ANGRY ONES….JESUS BRING PEACE…
DRAW CLOSE TO THE TORN APART, TO THE BROKEN HEART,
TO THE ONE WHO’S FAR….JESUS BRING PEACE…
AND DRAW CLOSE.”

“REJOICE WITH THOSE WHO REJOICE, AND WEEP WITH THOSE WHO WEEP.”
*ROMANS 12:15*

“BLESSED BE THE GOD AND FATHER OF OUR LORD JESUS CHRIST, THE FATHER OF MERCIES AND GOD OF ALL COMFORT, WHO COMFORTS US IN ALL OUR AFFLICTION SO THAT WE WILL BE ABLE TO COMFORT THOSE WHO ARE IN ANY AFFLICTION WITH THE COMFORT WITH WHICH WE OURSELVES ARE COMFORTED BY GOD. FOR JUST AS THE SUFFERINGS OF CHRIST ARE OURS IN ABUNDANCE, SO ALSO OUR COMFORT IS ABUNDANT THROUGH CHRIST.”
*II CORINTHIANS 1:3-5*