In the midst of a day’s news that holds both rescue and ruin, both the birth of new life and the fear of spreading disease, the apostle Paul offers a peculiar comfort: that God’s mercy meets us not to exempt us from suffering, but to transform our experience of it into a resource for others. The mother cradling her newborn in the rubble, the communities gathering in solidarity despite division, the diaspora celebrating their own—these are not denials of the violence and loss also happening today, but witnesses to a different kind of presence. To be comforted by God, Paul suggests, is not to be removed from a broken world, but to be equipped to recognize and offer comfort within it. Perhaps today’s task is simply to notice where comfort has appeared, and to let that noticing reshape how we move through the sorrow.