This class was named about suffering for the sake of the body.

So I feel like I owe you some reflections on that.

And what I decided to do a few years ago was fold into this class,

something I had written first after the Littleton Colorado Massacre,

where the students had killed those other students.

And then, of course, other horrible things have happened, the most

dramatic of which probably is 9-11. But what I wrote was I thought when this happened, it was

so amazingly in the news. And people in our church knew people in Colorado that were affected by that.

And people were asking, what do you say to these parents whose children were just shot in high school?

What do you say?

What do you do?

And I had never tried to put together a larger, more or less exhaustive or systematic guide for myself or for the elders.

But that's what I did here.

That's what this is.

So I wrote that then, and then I've adapted it as the years have gone by, and I've thought about other things.

So I'm just going to tick these off.

I won't take time to read the text, most of them.

I want to bullet kinds of things to watch out for when you're ministering to people in pain.

And I set it up with the Littleton and 9-11s.

I'm going to skip all that and get right down to it.

These have a kind of order to them.

And I'll just read them and comment on them briefly because we have about 40 minutes or so to do this.

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