From that book by Iain Matthew that I cited a couple of weeks ago:
"Sympathy can be ruinous. 'I think it's dreadful--I don't know how you put up with it. No. I really can understand, you must feel awful. . . . . There is a kind of sympathy that leaves the sufferer exhausted. . . . it is important to respond in the right way . . . not just to console, but to help someone bear pain creatively.'"
IMHO: That's the reason the image of the suffering Christ on the crucifix is so consoling. Don't go around the pain, go
through it to the other side.
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