Lament: The sacred act of bringing our grief, confusion, and pain into the presence of God; not escape suffering, but to encounter him in it.

“When epidemics broke out the Romans often fled in fear and left the sick to die without care.” - Howard Haggard

"Very many of our brethren, while in their exceeding love and brotherly kindness, did not spare themselves, but kept by each other, and visited the sick without thought of their own peril, and ministered to them assiduously and treated them for their healing in Christ, died from time to time most joyfully. . .drawing upon themselves their neighbors’ diseases, and willingly taking over to their own persons the burden of the sufferings of those around them." - Works of Dionysius, Epistle 12.4, 5th Century