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Just Show up and Listen: Tools for the Suffering

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Have you wondered how to care and love better when people are suffering? Hopefully the post below will give you some helpful tools to do so. What I have to say below is not perfect but hopefully beneficial.    Suffering . A word that is living and breathing and is often times uncomfortable because it means that there is brokenness and emotions... dare I say... feelings. Emotions and feelings are often things that have been deemed bad or things to be hidden because they bring shame or dishonor or "show" weakness. But can I tell you something, emotions and feelings aren't bad things. We do need to know the time and place for them and they need redeemed just like anything else but they aren't bad. We don't need to shy away from them or call people crazy for having them. If you are human, you emote. If you don't, you might want to check your pulse.    Suffering is a part of life. Cancer. Miscarriages. Loss of a loved one. Job loss. Abuse. Words that bring death. P...