“When you are in pain get to the powers of your soul and try to understand what heaven is trying to tell you in this trial of yours. If perhaps you cry from the pain the tears will clinch your vision, as it did to joke the much suffering and then you too, will be able to say along with him, “Now mine eyes have seen Thee.” Don’t forget that God sees you and watching you when you are in pain. He perceives even the beating of your heart. Consequently he will not leave you without consolation and his fatherly protection. Naturally, the Saints rejoiced in their afflictions; as for us, that is at least manage to accept affliction or pain patiently.”
Elder Ephraim
~Counsels from the Holy Mountain