When I preach about the pain of my life, my struggles and disappointments, it connects with other people's pain. When I have heard someone else talk about their successes it is not always possible for me to relate to it if I have not experienced such success myself. In fact, sometimes it makes me feel envious or spiteful or a failure. When I am honest in revealing my pain, however, others are given the courage to be honest about their pain, and together we discover healing.
Jesus represents God's pain. God shares Jesus with the world and then reincorporates the Broken and Crucified One back into the self-understanding of the Trinity. God's pain - Jesus - speaks to our pain. Our pain - Jesus - is taken up into the self-understanding of the Holy Trinity.
In the revelation of God's willingness and desire to embrace human suffering as God's own suffering we discover healing.
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