"Cheer and tune my heartless breast"

We all have trouble.  Such a banal statement.

When things go wrong, or when things fail to go according to plan, there is no real reason to be ashamed and abashed, really.  It comes to each of us, given enough time.  And even when/if it's a result of our own choices--so much the more reason for mercy.  So many who profess religious belief think that the point is the moral code.  But even a cursory reading of Romans, for instance, suggests that the moral code isn't the point at all, is it?  For who is able to live up to even his or her own professions of right and wrong, wise and foolish?  Don't we all end up falling well short?

How can anyone who sees himself aright stand in judgment of anyone else?  "who should escape whipping?" Hamlet asks.

That's why everyone needs to know that there are open arms, no matter what misfortune or foolishness we fall prey to.  Because we all do, don't we?