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When anxiety was great within me, your consolation brought joy to my soul.

—Ps 94:19

• It was said of the mothers in Bethlehem, whose young children were murdered by the paranoid King Herod, “A voice is heard in Ramah, weeping and great mourning, Rachel weeping for her children and refusing to be comforted, because they are no more” (Matt 2:18).

• What can we say to a mother at such a time? How do we console a broken heart? Words fail us.

• It is not only the grieving who need consolation. The worriers and the uptight also need it. At times anxious thoughts flood our minds and paralyze us.

• How grateful we are to have a consoling God. Because Jesus lived on this earth, he understands exactly what we face and is thus able to comfort and encourage us in times of distress.

• Reflect on the consoling words of God in the Bible and the One who extends them to us.