This is a wonderful post by Angie Mabry-Nauta:
“The place where your pain lives is the same place from which your empathy flows, he explained. Because you hurt, you understand and can feel compassion for those who feel similarly. Out of your pain your call is born, in essence; just as out of Jesus’ death came new life.”
Read the rest of the wonderful post here: http://revangiem-n.com/2012/05/09/creative-emptiness/