Today's Encouragement: You must let suffering speak, if you want ...

You must let suffering speak, if you want to hear the truth. ~ Cornel West 

Editor's note: Today commemorates "suffering" with the Christian Good Friday and the Jewish Passover of liberation from enslavement. Whatever one's faith system, a core component of hospice and palliative care is to relieve "suffering": physical, emotional, mental, relational, spiritual. Evidenced throughout our newsletter's issues, labor/employment strikes are rooted in "suffering": financial, stress, workplace violence, more. To relieve suffering, we must first see and hear it, acknowledge and understand it, and compassionately seek to relieve it. May we quiet our selves to tune into others' suffering. To hear truths. To take action with our best servant-leadership wisdom.