orthodoxgladness:

The Lord shows another’s trouble in order to soften our hearts.
St. Gabriel (Urgebadze)

Put your own suffering aside.  With our eyes on ourselves we will never understand what God is trying to teach us.  Look up.  Look out.  See your brothers and your sisters writhing in the circumstances of life.  

You were made to love.  You were made to see others.  

Your hand is the cool compress on a feverish brow. Your words are the only Truth many ears will ever hear.