God of Consolation

“May the God of consolation touch their hearts and ease their pain.” ~ Pope XVI on shooting at Newtown, Connecticut The God of consolation. Like who wants the consolation prize? “Comfort received after loss or disappointment…” But comfort! How we crave comfort, how we try all our lives to find a source of comfort. In good times and in bad. How we look in wrong places, in addiction, in blame, in self-pity, in anger, in rage… The God of consolation. A source greater than each of us, a power actually able to touch hearts, to ease pain. The God of consolation is with us always, in good times and bad, in joy as in sorrow. Consolation is good.