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After the Tucson shootings in front of the Safeway Store, where there was an attempted assassination on Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords, the president visited the city to console the people. But President Obama was not there just for the Giffords family, but for all the families who suffered a terrible and tragic loss of a loved one. Obama's compassion and understanding of this is reflected in these words from his speech, "There is nothing I can say that will fill the sudden hole torn in your hearts."
We have all experienced sudden holes torn in our hearts. It may come from the death of a loved one or a feeling of personal failure. It was a feeling of personal failure that Isaiah experienced when he endured "insult and spitting" from those he was trying to guide and comfort. As we continue our Christian witness as Isaiah did, often there will not be anything one can say to us that will bring comfort to the holes torn in our hearts, because people will insult us and degrade the message that we share.
We have all experienced sudden holes torn in our hearts. It may come from the death of a loved one or a feeling of personal failure. It was a feeling of personal failure that Isaiah experienced when he endured "insult and spitting" from those he was trying to guide and comfort. As we continue our Christian witness as Isaiah did, often there will not be anything one can say to us that will bring comfort to the holes torn in our hearts, because people will insult us and degrade the message that we share.
