Help Me With the Sorrow

“Help me with the sorrow,” I prayed to God as I knelt on my knees at the foot of my hotel room bed before the day began.

One of the hardest seasons of my life. The sadness so tangible I feel at times it could take me down under the massive waves of it and like an undertow in the ocean not release its grip on me and let me rise back to the surface.

But I have learned this about sadness, and about all emotions. We do not need to go through them alone. Oh, sure, we can reach out to others for love,...