...what good people can do in the face of great sorrow. We help some time pass...

...what good people can do in the face of great sorrow. We help some time pass for those suffering. We sit with them in their hopeless pain and feel terrible with them, without trying to fix them with platitudes; doing this with them is just about the most gracious gift we have to offer. We give up what we think should be doing, or think need to get done, to keep them company.
We help them to bear being in time and space during unbearable times and spaces.