standing face to face

so the other day we where watching this video and in this video there was a Shepard and a guy who was tagging alone to see what it is like to be a Shepard, apparently in the hot season sheep get something called "summer fever" and they get headaches (how they know this i don't really know)
so the Shepard takes oil and massages all the sheep's heads, the observes asks "so do they all feel better now?"
the Shepard says "well i don't think so, but i don't think they want me to take their pain away i think they just want to know i am there and that i care"

since then I've been thinking a lot about if we as people would rather God just not let us feel pain or let us feel pain but through that let us know that he is with us in our pain.
I love the sound of the second part.

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I will blog more of whats been going on lately at a later time