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+ | ====== COPING WITH DISTRESS ====== | ||
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+ | What can we do in the face of a disastrous situation | ||
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+ | There are some things in life before which we simply stand helpless. For a time, the pain can be so deep that no therapy, and no words of comfort can do much for us. | ||
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+ | What can anyone say to someone caught up in this way? We have our stock expressions: | ||
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+ | All this is true, but not particularly consoling or helpful during a period of deep unhappiness. | ||
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+ | Yet there is something that can help make the unbearable more bearable, namely, a more conscious, deliberate effort to love that which, beneath everything else, animates and directs it. It’s not easy. But we do it when, despite our frustration, | ||
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+ | When we are brought to our knees by frustration, | ||
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+ | ===== From the Church Registers ===== | ||
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+ | |30 November| | ||
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