" In an African hospital, a pastor who had just witnessed another death was approached by a poor, elderly woman. “You know,” she said, taking my [the pastor’s] arm, “through many losses of family and friends and through much sorrow, the Lord has taught me one thing. Jesus Christ did not come to take away our pain and suffering, but to share in it.”2 "

― Edward T. Welch , Depression: A Stubborn Darkness–Light for the Path