Fwd:

The Shechina goes with us into galus. Hashem is with us when we are in pain.
But -

One might mistakenly think that the Schechina is present only while one is in the midst of suffering pain. Once the pain passes, however, the extra intensity of the presence of the Shechina passes as well. If I could compare it, picture yourself in a very dark cave with others. Everything is pitch black. Suddenly, you reach in your pocket and find a small candle. You fumble around for a match, light it, and then light the candle. Despite its size, the tiny candle lights up the entire cave for everyone. Nothing is appreciated more than that little candle. When the group finds its way out of the cave into the sunshine, the light from the candle, which was once so appreciated, will become totally insignificant.
This is the parable or the Shechina which we discover in our suffering, in our darkness; it is like a candle lit in a dark cave. However, the questuon arises: when we are redeemed - when the brilliant sunshine of redeption banishes the darkness exile - what significance will this little amount of Schechina that we felt in our dark days have? What consolation can we really have, when, in the end, our discovery of the light of the Schechina will be like candlelight in the face of the sunlight?
To thus, the Maharal explains that Rabbi Shimon bar Yochai said: "when the time comes for yisroel to be redeemed from exile, the Schechina u discover in exile will be redeemed" (i.e. go along) with you; the appreciation you feel now in exile and pain will not be drowned out by the great revelation of Shechina which will occur at the redemption. At the time of the redeption, when life will return to the way it was meant to be, that original Shechina revealed during the exile will not disappear.

 

(Direct quote from From Darkness to Dawn by Rabbi Ezriel Tauber)