also, and as a result of that conversation the mother received new hope and new courage for her own ordeal. Nina Hermann wrote of that discovery: “I had read about God and Jesus Christ participating in the human experience, participating in suffering, knowing rejection, knowing aloneness and pain and fear, knowing anger, even anger at God. I had read it, but it had never been a revelation. Until now.” And that’s the significant point of her story. She had received this revelation, by following her