Friends acknowledge the sufferings any one of them have experienced. They acknowledge too the injustice and evil they and any citizens have suffered from the social and economic orders around them. Once acknowledged, they can set out together to reduce and to limit personal and societal suffering and injustice.
[A way to live Luke 24:36b-48 from readings in many churches for 4/19/15,the Third Sunday of Easter; the resurrected Jesus comes to his followers, teaches them, and sends them to “all nations.”]