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         Fear not for this light affliction. For just as I learned obedience to the Father through the things that I suffered, you too will learn to have a closer walk with Me through the delicate condition I have bestowed upon you. I know, I love, and I care for you, just as My Father cared for Me.
         I, too, had a delicate heart. I, too, was afflicted. I knew what it was like to mourn, and I wept. I was afflicted with these weaknesses of the flesh that I might be fashioned into a High Priest for your sake. I know and I understand, because I experienced and I felt everything you are feeling. I, too, took on the cloak of flesh, that I might understand.
         Fear not for your weakness, for I have heard your prayers, I have seen your tears, and I do answer. I am right here by your side to hold you and to comfort you with the same comfort that My Father gave Me.
         Remember that I was a man of many sorrows and of a broken heart. Through it all, I learned the blessing of greater power--power of spirit. I suffered many afflictions, but through My afflictions I learned to have greater dependence on My Father. I learned that His power, and His power alone, was enough to sustain Me. There was a purpose in each affliction, in each difficulty through which I had to pass.
         Through it all, most importantly, I learned to look up, to keep My eyes on Heaven. It was in My very weakness and My afflictions that I learned to avail myself of My Father's great power! I had to call on Him, I had to lean hard on Him, and in leaning I found My strength. So I grew, and I learned, and I saw that in My very weakness was the greatest strength of all.



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