The past few days have proven to be emotionally exhausting. Yesterday, I found out that a friend's brother died, and today I heard that my best friend's grandmother passed away. Also, last night a few of my fellow CMH students shared some very difficult client stories and their personal reactions and struggles in dealing with them.
I absolutely know that heartache is a part of life, but this is a strange place to be- surrounded by so much heartache while feeling that things in my life are going quite well. (I recently accepted an offer from IJM to participate in their Fellowship Program! And graduation is fast approaching!) I hate to see people whom I love having to face such difficulty. As a counselor, I am used to diving in to others' hurt; however, I cannot play the counselor role with my friends and family. It is not an easy task to just sit with people in their hurt and struggles.
I think that in asking Peter, James, and John to accompany Him to the garden, Jesus was really asking a lot of them. The text does not explicitly say so, but in my current position, I feel that I can intuit that with confidence. I do not have any answers right now, except to say that it is tough to look all around and feel that there is not much besides heartache and evidence of the fallen world in which we live. It is times like this that I know without a doubt that Christ is our only hope.
