"Selfishness in Sorrow is another temptation. One is so apt to become absorbed in one's Sorrow.
"It is quite possible to become almost selfish in one's spiritual life under the stress of great Sorrow.
"To see everything, every lesson, every allusion, solely from one's own point of view, to grow too fond of thinking of one's burden....
"The hard path of daily duty is the only path to tread, not because one is thinking of oneself, but because one wishes to forget oneself, and to think only of God, and of those that remain.
"Self-denial: to put self last, not out of sight, but last, that is what one is always called to do, and it is a sad bit of disloyalty to God's grace if one becomes more selfish in Sorrow."
Canon Scott Holland.
SEPTEMBER 16
"A great Sorrow which changes life altogether is apt to produce a certain irritability, a sort of nervous jar.
"Very often this is an affair of nerves, of physical health, but it is well to watch—'watch and pray.'