When you are feeling abandoned, pick up Job’s book and speak Job’s prayers and know they have been prayed before and that we are part of a great history and we are all in this together. There are no feelings we feel that others have not felt before. At such times, in our prayer, we unite ourselves in solidarity with others who suffer and who have suffered before us. Often, that’s the only way out of self-pity and a preoccupation with our own feelings. We have to choose solidarity and the “communion of the saints.” There, we realize we are carrying the weight of our brothers and sisters, and
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