On other people's trials ...

My new ISP gets posts flagged as spam everywhere I go ... so I'm commenting on my blog, since my comment got swallowed: Personally, I've come to believe that other people's hardships are the hardships they are having and they are entitled to feel that they are experiencing hardship.

As someone else remarked at http://segullah.org/daily-special/no-good-comes-from-blogging-after-midnight/

My hardest trial might be insignificant compared to others, but it’s still the VERY HARDEST thing that has ever happened in my life, and so is still meaningful and difficult and important

Amen.

We are to "mourn with those who mourn" not tell them to "buck up" or engage in comparison contests with them.