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Lament

Therefore when Mary came to where Jesus was and saw him, she fell down at his feet, saying to him, “Lord, if you would have been here, my brother wouldn’t have died.” When Jesus therefore saw her weeping, and the Jews weeping who came with her, he groaned in the spirit and was troubled, and said, “Where have you laid him?” Jesus wept. The Jews therefore said, “See how much affection he had for him!”

John 11:32–36 · World English Bible

Jesus wept. The sentence is short because the feeling is not an argument. If you have no tears, you can still stand at the place where tears belong and not rush the ending.

Where should you be standing, even if your eyes are dry?

Hope

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, that we may be able to comfort those who are in any affliction, through the comfort with which we ourselves are comforted by God. For as the sufferings of Christ abound to us, even so our comfort also abounds through Christ.

2 Corinthians 1:3–5 · World English Bible

Comfort is for the afflicted, and it is meant to be passed along. Numbness can be a wall against more pain. It can also block the thing that would eventually soften you.

What comfort have you refused because taking it would mean admitting you were hurt?