About dealing with our pain:

Matthew 4:24 News about him spread all over Syria, and people brought to him all who were ill with various diseases, those suffering severe pain, the demon-possessed, those having seizures, and the paralyzed, and he healed them. 25 Large crowds from Galilee, the Decapolis,F Jerusalem , Judea and the region across the Jordan followed him. (NIV)

Matthew 9:36 When he saw the crowds, he had compassion on them, because they were harassed and helpless, like sheep without a shepherd. (NIV)

We are the multitudes. Please hear our cry. We hurt. We seek an end to our pain in alcohol, drugs, sex, violence, and all kinds of addictive and dysfunctional behaviors. We hurt ourselves, sometimes on purpose, sometimes by accident. We hurt others, sometimes on purpose and sometimes accident. At our best, inside of us there is rage, pain, fear, and even panic, but we deny we have these. At our worst, inside of us there is nothing. The pain of our soul is unbearable. Our hurt is so deep we cannot fathom ever getting rid of our pain. We live in fantasy because our reality hurts too much. We cannot bear the thought of facing the world one more day. We cannot control anything important in our world so we live from day to day trying to outrun whatever spins out of control inside of us. We are the multitudes. Please hear our cry.