Ken Burch
1 min readFeb 1, 2020

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To that list, I would add the phrase “God never gives us more than we can handle”-especially when that is said to a person in deep personal crisis or worse yet, in mourning for the loss(or losses) or people in that person’s life. While I can accept that the phrase is said from a place of good intent, it invariably sounds, to the person who it is said to, as if that person is being told “there’s a limit to how much pain you are allowed to feel about this, and, quite frankly, you need to ‘suck it up, snowflake!’ It’s simply not something anybody has any moral right to say to anyone in pain.

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Ken Burch
Ken Burch

Written by Ken Burch

Retired Alaska ferryboat steward, grandparent, sometime poet. Radical yet independent of dogma. Likes nice days, playing banjo and not as yet dying of Covid.

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