I'm right there in your tears

Jesus says, "Cry over your pains, and you will discover that I'm
right there in your tears, and you will be grateful for my presence
in your weakness." Ministry means to help people become grateful
for life even with pain. That gratitude can send into the world
precisely to the places where people are in pain. The minister, the
disciple of Jesus, goes where there is pain not because he is a
masochist or she is a sadist, but because God is hidden in the pain.
- Henri J. M. Nouwen