You will not only see injustices, but identify the powers at work whose interests are served by injustice. You will not only comfort the broken hearted, but cry out to God with them in the impenetrable darkness where no answers are ever visible. Human need knows no end. There is no final page. The stories go on.
Human misery is stark and frightening.
Its haunting darkness can create its own dense cloud to engulf the reader in despair, to rise from the page and consume all hope with heaviness and death. You may let your eye run to the shafts of light, skip the pain, and see only the promise of happy endings. Your ministry will be measured by your ability to avoid such denial- and to avoid such death. For you are not asked to carry the world on your shoulders. You are not to be held accountable for every human need.