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future. We know the pain of watching the destructive behavior of someone we love. We know what it is
to suffer with someone we love. We know innocent suffering.
But it struck me that this passages tells us something more about such suffering. One is that we
are never alone because each of our lives is connected in a way we cannot see - and yet in the depth of
our souls - we know we are connected to the lives of others, even those who have died, connected to
creation, connected to God. So it might not be too much to say that when we suffer, all creation suffers,
and even God suffers.
And the other thing is this: that those times of suffering, then, are “thin places” because that is
when we can be sure that God is very, very close, as close as and even closer than the air we breathe, the
people and the things we touch. We can be sure that someone really does know the trouble we see and
someone really does suffer with us. And, because we can know that, like Jesus, we can commit our spirit
to God.
I believe that it is then that more can happen from being in those “thin places.” I think that what
can happen is that we become not thin people, but “thin place people” - people who have been through
the fire and come out smiling - not because it was easy but because they have been to a “thin place”
where they have touched and have been touched by the Love that is always there and will never let us go.
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