Feeling what I Feel

I really should do a lot of research before I write this, but if I just write it, maybe Keith will do the research and correct me if I'm wrong.  We were reading in 2 Corinthians in Sunday School today and I had to grab a pen and make a note because something struck me.  I don't know what verse we were even in or if it was about what came to me.

We read and talk about Christ having gone through everything we will ever have to go through.  In Isaiah 53: 4  it says,  "Surely he has borne our griefs and carried our sorrows..."  and in Alma 7:11-12 it says,  "And he shall go forth, suffering  pains and afflictiions and temptations of every kind; and this that the word might be fulfilled which saith he will take upon him the pains and the sicknesses of his people.  And he will take upon him death, that he may loose the bands of death which bind his people;  and he will take upon him their infirmities, that his bowels may be filled with mercy, according to the flesh, that he may know according to the flesh how to succor his people according to their infirmities."
Him bearing every hurt;  every sorrow;  every everything--is there a chronology to it?  What I mean is:  Do we know at what point he had accomplished that? 

Had he faced all those things in his own life before he took them on for us?  Or has he gone through all of them through taking them on for us?  Does he know what it's like to be lonely because he took it on for every widow that ever lived?  Does he know what it's like to suffer disease because he took on every ailment for the sick?  We know he never sinned, but we believe he knows what it's like to feel our guilt and want desperately to be forgiven.  We know he never broke a bone because of the prophesies in the Old Testament, and yet we believe he knows every pain we feel.

Is it the atonement that, in fact, made he feel what it's like to be lame or dumb or outcast?  It may be a silly point that everyone but me already figured out, but it makes a lot of sense to me.  He knows what I go through, not because of what he went through on his own, but through his suffering for what I would go through. 

Sometimes my thoughts are only as clear as mud, but it's good to record those thoughts too.