When we speak of Jesus Christ as Emmanuel, God with us, we are saying that the greatest lover in history knows what hurts us. Jesus reveals a God who is not indifferent to human agony, a God who fully embraces the human condition, and plunges into the thick of our human struggle. There is nothing that Jesus does not understand about the heartache that hangs like a cloud over the valley of history. In His own being He feels every cry of the mourning and loss, every heart split open with grief, every cry of mourning down the corridors of time. To us who cry out from the depths of our brokenness for a hand that will touch us, an arm that can embrace us, lips that will kiss us, a word that speaks to us here and now, and a heart that is not afraid of our fears and tremblings' to us, who feel our own pain as no other human being feels it, has felt it or ever will feel it and who are always waiting for someone who dares to come close--- to us has come a man who can truly say 'I am with you" Jesus Christ is God with us and our every human pain reverberates in his innermost self.
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