I was reading today in the Wall Street Journal a story about how the army is dealing with the increasing number of suicides that are taking place, the article is called “A General’s Personal Battle“ (This is on the Wall Street Journal site and I am not sure how long they will let non-subscribers read the story). What struck me about this story was the last two small paragraphs of the story.
Gen. Graham wasn’t a physically affectionate man before Kevin’s suicide. Today, he makes a point of hugging every father he meets who has lost a lost a child to combat or suicide.
“Men grieve differently,” he says. “But I still remember someone hugging me after Jeff’s death and just whispering, ‘Let me take a little bit of that pain off of you.’ ”
We are suppose to bear one another’s burdens (Galatians 6:2). Here in this story is how one man, one hug, affected this General and changed his whole outlook.
Isn’t bearing one another’s burden offering to take a little bit of the pain and help give it to God? This looks to me as an example of how we are suppose to help bear one another’s burdens.
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