I feel your pain and long to touch the hurt and make it melt away. Yes, I know that I can't really see the breadth and depth of this dark valley you're in. I can't truly know just how sharp the knife is in your soul - for it is you in its path,not me. But I have known other valleys, and in my heart still bear knife-wound scars. Even so, I would walk your road and take your pain if I could.
I cannot.
And yet, perhaps in some way I can be a hand to hold in the darkness; in some way, try to blunt the sharpness of pain. But if not - it may help a little just to know I care.
Christine Rigden, quoted in "Listening to Others" by Joyce Huggett