In some way, we have all been a witness or a participant to someone elses pain. And we wonder about the struggles of pain, we wonder about the how, the why, and we wonder if there is a place for our emotions, somewhere we can pour it out. In th ebook of Nehemiah we meet him in a place of sadness and despair, but instead of hiding his emotions as we often do, he poured them out in to a place of refuge. He did not hide the pain, he embraced it, that is what this devotional is all about. Embracing the pain and pouring it out in to the Hands of the Ultimate One who is our Refuge.