COMFORT

We are comforted because we are heartbroken. We are comforted because we need a blessing. We are comforted because God loves us. We are comforted to comfort others.

While each of the above statements is true, the last is the most crucial one. There is something about comfort that cannot be fully realized until it is shared with someone else.

It is that final step in the healing process of grief, disappointment, hurt, and loss.

Until we share the comfort we have received, until we pass it on to another, our comfort is weak and shallow and limited. Comfort, pass it on!

"Therefore encourage one another and build each other up, just as in fact you are doing.

And we urge you, brothers, warn those who are idle, encourage the timid, help the weak, be patient with everyone".

~ 1 Thessalonians 5:11, 14 ~

"Comfort, comfort my people, says your God".

~ Isaiah 40:1 ~

Praise be to the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of compassion and the God of all comfort, who comforts us in all our troubles, so that we can comfort those in any trouble with the comfort we ourselves have received from God".

~ 2 Corinthians1:3-4 ~