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To the end of the day, even on the cross, Jesus was thinking more of the sorrows of others
than his own.

That’s the definition of compassion. In the midst of intense suffering, Jesus cared for those he
loved and in doing so, he concluded his dealing with men.

With Mary’s care secured, he focus shifted upward to the purpose behind it all – the awful
task of becoming the Lamb of God, the sin – bearing sacrifice for a lost human race.

How near he is to us! Never perhaps in his whole life did he so completely identify himself
with his poor brethren of mankind. For how he came down to stand by our side not only
when we have to encounter pain and misfortune, bereavement and death …

But when we endure the pain that is beyond all pains, that horror in whose presence the brain
reels, and faith and love, the eyes of life have put out – the horrors of a universe without God,
a universe which is one hideous tumbling, one mess of confusion.

Without reason to guide it, and no love to sustain it.