Sometimes... you just gotta talk.

It is amazing to me the power that resides in communication.  We hear this all the time, "I just need to vent" or "I just needed someone to talk to".  Why does a person need to voice their hurt, frustration, and challenges... even beyond solving the problem?  The answer is simple.  A person can voice all these things in their own company at any time, but what they need is to verbalize it to another human... have that human really listen and care... and then, as much as possible, feel the emotion that the one communicating wants to express.  You might think, "Well this just adds more depression and no results... no solutions... just pissing and moaning!".  But you are wrong.

Imagine this person's hurt is a dark jail cell.  They are alone in it...  but when they express what their cell is like, it is as if someone walks into that empty dark place and fills it with life-giving light!  The light that comes from relationship.  I think that could be part of what Jesus was describing when he said, "Where two or more are gathered, there I am also".  Light enters our life through knowing, being known, and loving... anything else is superficial and temporary.  Because Christ also said, "No one gets to the father (who is the source of Love, and the creator of light) except through me (Christ)".