No Sorrow Will Endure
I was struck by the lyrics of one of the hymns we sang Sunday morning, and it touched me as I sang the last line of each verse.
It's an old hymn, written by Thomas Moore nearly 200 years ago. The portion that caught me as I sang it was the following: "Earth has no sorrow that heaven cannot heal." Now how I heard it is not some pie-in-the-sky future remedy, but an affirmation that no situation is hopeless. When we experience countless examples of suffering and suspect that pain is the only reality, that notion is countered by the witness that sorrow does not speak the final word. I hear that testimony repeatedly from folks who have endured more pain than I can even imagine that healing will come. We are not without hope. No sorrow will endure.
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