
While there often are practical ways to show compassion to someone in a trial, the best thing we can say or do is remind someone of what God has done for us in the gospel.
God has used John Piper to teach me three truths related to motherhood and suffering that have given me great hope in my sorrow. The first is that we will suffer as mothers. That reality would be devastating apart from God’s promise that our pain as his children will not be wasted. Not only does God offer us future hope; his Word also sustains us in our suffering.