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Saturday, April 26, 2008 
By Kerry Hasenbalg

"Praise be to the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of compassion and the God of all comfort, who comforts us in all our troubles, so that we can comfort those in any trouble with the comfort we ourselves have received from God. For just as the sufferings of Christ flow over into our lives, so also through Christ our comfort overflows." -1 Corinthians 1:3-5
 
When I carried my daughter full-term and lost her in a miscarriage, I dealt with a lot of grief and pain.  Since then I have felt healed in many ways, and I do not want to go back to the great grief for the fear of undoing the joy and healing. However, the pain of others takes you back, but it is then that God ministers. Amazing. Yes, the great wounds do heal, but when we look at the huge scar that remains on our bodies, we remember so vividly, as if we can feel it all over again. But I believe this is the reason we have scars, so that we will empathize enough to care and comfort others—to comfort with the same comfort with which God, himself, has comforted us.
 
Only the big wounds and deep cuts leave a scar large enough to be noticed and reveal to the world that we are broken too. We are the broken body… "This is my body broken for you, do this in remembrance of me." To be broken for the sake of the brethren: this is why Jesus carried the scars of the cross on his resurrected body—not just for doubting Thomas, but as a mark of his empathetic example to us. We are His broken body here, waiting, as a living sacrifice, fellowshipping in His suffering. "Jesus said to them, 'You will drink the cup I drink and be baptized with the baptism I am baptized with…'." (Mark 10:39). 
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