{"text":"One's suffering, one's melancholy is, in itself, really only looked upon as failure or as punishment, as detestable or sinful or socially unacceptable in the eyes of man; but this is not so in the eyes of God: for He is close to the broken-hearted.","author":"Criss Jami","tags":["adversity","affliction","anxiety","apologetics","broken","broken-heart","caring","christ","compassion","crushed","crying","cure","depression","detestable","distress","emotions","empathy","failure","feelings","gloom","god","grief","grief-and-loss","guilt","healing","heart","heartbreak","losing","loss","love","man","melancholy","misery","pain","passion","punishment","sadness","sickness","sin","socially-acceptable","socially-unacceptable","sorrow","stress","suffering","sympathy","tears","unconditional-love"],"id":250133,"author_id":"Criss+Jami"}