Week 44 Day 3

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Share Your Sorrows

Know ye not that your body is the temple of the Holy Ghost which is in you, which ye have of God. . . ?

1 Corinthians 6:19

Creator Spirit! by whose aid

The world’s foundations first were laid,

Come, visit every humble mind;

Come, pour thy joys on human kind:

From sin and sorrow set us free,

And make us temples worthy thee.

For those who were grieving, Abraham Lincoln was a good person to commiserate with. He was no stranger to loss, and he understood the healing power of sharing a sorrow with someone else. There was certainly lots of grief during and after the Civil War, for nearly everyone in the nation had lost loved ones. “I do not feel my own sorrows much more keenly than I do yours, when I know of them,” wrote Lincoln to a grieving widow. Indeed, sharing your grief and sorrow with someone else helps. It helped Lincoln, and it can help you. Growing up on the frontier in the nineteenth century brought with it much loss. Lincoln lost his mother at the age of eight, a fiancée at the age of twenty, and other friends and family members. So when someone shared his or her grief with President Lincoln, he could sympathize.