Weep with those who weep

How true this has become for me today.  Friends of ours in Uganda have had to say goodbye to their one month old baby today.  It has been a long road for them this week and today we weep with them as they grieve.  And being pregnant, feeling the movement of my own babe inside, has made the reality that much clearer for me.  Sometimes there are no words, just virtual hugs and sympathy sent across the ocean while you are wishing that you could be there in person to wrap them up in your arms and cry with them.  It's a good thing that God is big enough to hold the world in His hands because that ocean that is so big to us right now, is nothing to Him.  He is there, holding them in His arms.  He's been there.  He knows the pain.  And that is the ultimate comfort.