Though we are in such pain, trouble and distress, that it seems to us that we are unable to think of anything except how we are and what we feel, yet as soon as we may, we are to pass lightly over it, and count it as nothing.  And why?  Because God wills that we should understand that if we know him and love him and reverently fear him, we shall have rest and be at peace.  And we shall rejoice in all that he does.
–Saint Julian of Norwich (1342-1416)