Jesus cried because He is compassionate. He cares for the sufferings of others. Jesus became human so He can understand the sufferings of His people. Jesus didn't know suffering in Heaven. He surely knows it now on earth.
I’ve told Bess that, given the current circumstances, my job is easier than hers: all I have to do is die. She has the hard part; she has to live and figure out how to go on. Death's severing of connections feels particularly acute for the people who are most attached to other people, and…
When I started writing online, the advice I got was to publish frequently and not overthink any single piece. The logic was this: the outcome for blog posts is a heavy-tailed statistical distribution most pieces will be read by barely anyone, but a small subset of outliers will do hundreds if not thousands of times better than average.