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Expressed in a healthy fashion, sadness can motivate us to be compassionate as we identify with other people's suffering. Sadness also gives us the opportunity to evaluate the true worth of what we have lost. In addition, it allows us to express our love for a person who is gone as well as the pain we are suffering from life's tribulations. Left unchecked though, sadness can grow into despair or depression.It has the power to immobilize us. We stop living in the present because we can't move on from what we have lost. We isolate ourselves from relationships and sink into inaction. We see the world through a dark lense and lose joy. The Bible is clear that expressing sadness in healthy ways is cathartic (just read the Psalms, the Prophets and Lamentations). The key is learning how to express it in ways that don't overwhelm us.