the real score about SORROW(s)

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Ecclesiastes 7:3 Sorrow is better than laughter, because a sad face is good for the heart. Sorrow reveals unknown depths of the soul, and unknown capacities for suffering and service. Lighthearted, frivolous people are always shallow and are never aware of their own meagerness or lack of depth. Sorrow is God’s tool to plow the depths of the soul, that it may yield richer harvests. It is sorrow that causes us to take the time to think deeply and seriously. Sorrow makes us more slowly and considerately and examine our motives and attitudes. It opens within us the capacities of the heavenly life, and it makes us willing to set our capacities afloat on a limitless sea of service for God and for others. God never uses anyone to a great degree until He breaks the person completely. It takes sorrow to expand and deepen the soul. Every person and every nation must endure lesson in God’s school of adversity. “Blessed is sorrow, for it reveals God’s comfort.”