“Christ shrank from none of the bitter indignities of mortality, in order to be someone who is not insulated from our difficult lived reality. If you only live in a beautiful, prosperous world in which the beautiful and righteous prosper, then people who spent the day curled up in pain are not for you, and you are not for them. But through his hard-won experience of mortal griefs and sorrows, Jesus sees us, knows us, is with us.”

-Melissa Wei-Tsing Inouye

Full resource can be found here, “A Lost Sheep,” Wayfare Magazine